The precocious and prolific D’Addario brothers, Brian and Michael, literally hail from Hicksville, USA. Though now based in cosmopolitan Brooklyn, they continue to practice a hermetic, self-sufficient creativity. If there is an instrument Brian can’t play, he has yet to meet it. If there is a musical reference post-1974 in their armoury, it has yet to surface in their effusive strictly analogue MOR pop stylings.

No sooner had fourth album Everything Harmony been dispatched in 2023 than work began on its follow-up. A Dream Is All We Know, released exactly a year later, refines the retro aesthetic familiar to their cult army of fans: creamy, carefree vocals, breezy harmonies, blithe rhythms and effortlessly catchy melodies barrel forth with barely a breath drawn between songs.

‘My Golden Years’, a joyous canter made for summer, is a veritable period piece, equal parts early Elton John and Beach Boys, with even a dash of Neil Sedaka in its classic easy-listening pop construction. Those intertwining Beach Boy falsetto harmonics are back in full effect on ‘They Don’t Know How To Fall In Place’, embellished with a characterful vaudeville organ break. The brazenly Beatley whimsy of ‘Church Bells’ is acknowledged in the couplet ‘my love waits for me on the Jersey side, her love waits for her on the Merseyside’, and the brothers are audacious enough to go for a ‘moon’/‘June’ rhyme on the pastoral pop of ‘Ember Days’.

‘Peppermint Roses’ references early and late Beatles sounds, blending the beat drive of early Fabs with the instrumental inventiveness of the later years. Other influences are available, with ‘Sweet Vibration’ recalling the baroque pop prettiness of The Left Banke, the Sean Lennon-produced ‘In The Eyes Of The Girl’ gushing doe-eyed doo-wop style, and ‘Rock On (Over and Over)’ chugging along merrily in 70s pub-rock fashion.

The Lemon Twigs: A Dream Is All We Know is released on Captured Tracks on Friday 3 May.