The two previous Captured Tracks albums A Dream Is All We Know (2024) and Everything Harmony (2023) certainly indicated something of a ground zero in The Lemon Twigs’ then five album career. “We started making records that we would listen to ourselves,” says Michael D’Addario, the younger Twig brother, now aged 26. “We were forced to slow down and reevaluate who we were in 2020. Around that time, we tried to assess what we could do better than other groups, particularly in the studio. The live gigs had been getting crazier and crazier, and with no prospect of playing shows we thought it was the perfect time to make something a little more delicate, and to exploit particularly Brian's strengths. We decided to put all our efforts into making something powerful, and that’s how Everything Harmony came to be.” The album was a critic’s.
By the time of A Dream Is All We Know, the future Michael classic ‘My Golden Years’, which opens the album and also received a single release and a superb video, The Lemon Twigs new era had truly begun.
And now comes the third Lemon Twigs album for Captured Tracks, Look For Your Mind!, which follows on from standalone single ‘I’ve Got A Broken Heart’ / ‘Friday (I’m Gonna Love You)’, the first new release in two years, discounting Brian’s excellent solo album, Till The Morning (2025). For lovers of the slightly psychedelic / folk-rock / garage-pop that the band touched upon on their last long-player, this pairing was a delight. Would the forthcoming album follow in this style? “I think we went into the record hoping that every song was going to be in a guitar pop style,” explains Brian of their initial intentions, but being The Lemon Twigs this wasn’t going to happen. How could it?
Underneath its poppy exterior, Look For Your Mind! contains an undercurrent of paranoia and suspicion. “I do think that now is a time of insanity,” admits Brian after pausing for thought. “You really have to hold onto your own mind if you don’t wanna lose it.”
