“The Lemon Twigs go ape on the practically perfect Go To School”
“After assessing the options for their second proper album, the Lemon Twigs settled on a concept record about a childless couple adopting a chimpanzee named Shane and raising it as a human boy who deals with bullying, ostracism and rejection by setting his school on fire. The other option, a more autobiographical collection of straight-forward pop songs, “didn’t feel like much of a risk,” co-founde”
“Recorded in their parents’ basement, the second album by Long Island brothers Michael and Brian D’Addario is a musical about a monkey that features Todd Rundgren as the primate’s father.”
“Turns out, people fucking love musicals again. Take a peek at the album charts here in Britain and you’ll see that the soundtracks to some of this year’s biggest cinematic musicals, The Greatest Showman and Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, have throttled the top spots for a few months now. So far, it’s stopped heavyweights like Florence & The Machine, James Bay, Nicki Minaj and more from hitting the t”
“When The Lemon Twigs released ‘Do Hollywood’ in 2016 you knew how you felt about it, didn’t you? I mean, you either like unashamed classic ’70s touchstones (the themes from Minder and Grange Hill, Martin Scorsese prom waltzes, the absurdity of Queen – sometimes all played at once), or you really don’t. Just how wacky were you feeling back then? If you really weren’t – and if the D’Addario brothers”
