Tag: Don't Get Lemon

Single Review by William Ruben Helms

New Audio: Don’t Get Lemon Shares Ironic “Say Something New For Once”

Currently split between Austin and Houston, Don’t Get Lemon — Austin Curtis (vocals), Bryan Walters (bass, percussion) and Nick Ross (synth, guitar, drum programming) — is a dance pop outfit with a glam-leaning, synth-driven sound that draws from 70s Berlin and 80s Manchester.

Don’t Get Lemon’s forthcoming sophomore album Have Some Shame is slated for an April 23, 2024 release through á La Carte Records. The nine-song album, which clocks in at 37 minutes reportedly sees the trio flittering between synth pop and stomping glam rock and crafting a sound that the band dubs heatwave. Have Some Shame‘s latest single “Say Something New For Once” is a hook-driven, decidedly 80s inspired bop built around glistening synths, angular guitars, skittering four-on-the-flour and icily delivered vocals and a New Order-like guitar solo. While being an anaemic bop, the trio explains that the song is an ironic commentary on the process of songwriting. “Most bands have the opportunity to say something unique about their lives but instead get lost in trivial cliché. Does this song say anything new to you? Is it supposed to?”

Single Review by William Ruben Helms

New Audio: Don’t Get Lemon Shares Groovy, 80s-Inspired “Blow-up”

Currently split between Austin and Houston, Don’t Get Lemon — Austin Curtis (vocals), Bryan Walters (bass, percussion) and Nick Ross (synth, guitar, drum programming) — is a dance pop outfit with a glam-leaning, synth-driven sound that draws from 70s Berlin and 80s Manchester.

Deriving its title from Michelangelo Antonioni’s swinging 1966 motion picture Blow-Up, the Texan trio’s latest single “Blow-Up” is a decidedly 80s Madchester/Manchester-inspired bop built around glistening synths arpeggios, Curtis’ ironically detached delivery, a motorik-like groove, angular guitar attack, and bursts of polyrhythm featuring bongo and electronic drums paired with bombastic hooks. The trio explain that the song, which features lyrics pierced together, borrowing from William S. Burroughs’ famed cut-up poetry technique and imagery inspired by David Lynch’s Blue Velvet is a “glimpse into the unseen dark.”