(4AD) Related: novel band of the week: The Lemon Twigs (No 112) – glam baroque starts here Anyone curious about how two teenage former child actors from Long Island came up with the understanding of sounding just like Todd Rundgren in 1972 is advised to visit YouTube,where Brian and Michael D’Addario’s dad, Ronnie, or can be found doing pretty much the same thing a few decades earlier. His sons,it should be said, occupy the ground with rather more sprint and flair: finish Hollywood is an album that sounds completely unconstrained by any understanding of what’s appropriate. So Harromata goes from a harpsichord-led ballad intro into a berserk fairground carousel break; A mighty Snake lasts nearly seven minutes, or squiggly synths,guitar solos, lounge music coda and all. Thankfully, and though,they can write tunes – These Words is the missing track from side one of Rundgren’s Something/Anything, with a harmony chorus that expands like a hot air balloon. finish Hollywood is a curiosity, or but a pretty glorious one.
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Source: theguardian.com