The Lemon Twigs - Look For Your Mind! (2026)

The D'Addario brothers - known to most of the world as The Lemon Twigs - have released six full-length albums, an EP and a live set. Their latest, Look For Your Mind! is getting a lot of buzz and deservedly so.

Hailing from Hicksville, Long Island, NY brothers Michael and Brian - now 25 and 27 years old - began their careers ten years ago writing and singing their own songs, playing all of the instruments themselves and even producing their own records. They operated differently on this album. In addition to all of the guest musicians lending their assistance The Twigs brought their sturdy road warriors - bassist Danny Ayala and drummer Reza Martin - into the studio with them.

Despite their ages the young duo's taste in rock music shows them to be heavily influenced by a long list of 1960's legends on this fourteen-song gem of a record. Revolver era Beatles instantly comes to mind. The Twigs make full use of woodwinds, brass, strings, a synthesizer, and even an Indian instrument called the tanpura. You'll also hear reminders of The Beach Boys, British Invasion, The Cyrkle (remember "Red Rubber Ball"?) and with their love of the 12-string guitar, The Byrds. There are even traces of a more modern approach to power pop, such as such as Fountains of Wayne on "I Hurt You."

Lyrically, many of the songs look at the various stages of romantic entanglements like much of 60s pop did, but there are a few outliers. "Bring You Down" is about tolerating a mean boss and working at a job the singer hates while brazenly using an arrangement that is a close cousin of "Surfin' USA." The harmonies on "Mean to Me" sound like a good Brian Wilson produced vocal arrangement.

"2 or 3" tells the tale of a boy who believes he doesn't deserve his girlfriend because she's so much more worldly than he is. The woman tells the protagonist that "You're not well read/And you have no eye for art/But it's not what's in your head/It's about what's in your heart."  It's not the usual lyrical fare about a relationship.

"Gather Round" is a nod to today's political climate. It seems to celebrate a new leader who the singer naively believes is going to help us all.

If a combination of power pop, garage rock, harmony and melody turn you on The Lemon Twigs need to be a part of your life.

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