The time machine of the Addario brothers continues the journey back in the wonders of beat and pop music. In truth, the role of protagonist of this parenthesis in its own name is in truth, caustically defined Baroque-Country. For the fans of the Lemon Twigs it is a juicy opportunity to appreciate Brian D'Addario's talent as an author: in “Till the Morning” the musician is partially renounces the most articulated architectures of his brother Michael, however present behind the scenes, and relies on the pen of the well -known beach Boys collaborator, Stephen Kalinich, for a collection of more delicate songs and inclined to that Melting Pot Where the only constant is the temporal dimension that remained between the 60s and the early 70s.
With a splendid “what you are is beautiful” that vibrates on a few guitar agreements and an ecstatic romanticism, and a delicious country song to the Clark gene from the precious embroidery of slide and organ (“One day I'm coming home”), it becomes easy to archive Brian's solo debut as a outing Creative successful and perfectly aligned with the mother group, even if many will miss the charming variety and the most barest character of the songs of the Lemon Twigs, which can be tracked here in the lop Bubblegum pop of “flash in the pan”.
“Till the Morning” is a record in which the songs emerge, sometimes so simple as to play pleasantly trivial – the title track And the Beatlesian “Nothing on My Mind” – but also a full of a depth and a cultured melodic adventure, as in the cases of the pop chamber of “Useless Tears” and the romanticism of Anti of “Company”.
With the addition of a pinch of Freak-Folk (“Song of Everyone”), of a sugar ballad framed by suggestive vocal harmonies (“Only to Ease My Mind”) and an inspirated and melancholic “Spirit Without A Home” (dedicated to a sick uncle of Alzheimer), Brian D'Addario is confirmed as a consciously immersed author in the past finely elegant.
27/04/2025
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM