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Lemons Are Louder Than Rocks
12+ albums
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Lemons Are Louder Than Rocks, in addition to having one of the greatest band names ever, are one of the finest folk/pop psychedelic garage bands to pop up in recent years, and have been earning well-garnered comparisons to Zappa and Dr. Dog (Philly College Radio Collective) Jersey's answer to the question "What if Dr. Dog did Zappa's Joe's Garage in its entirety?" — the shockingly poppy Lemons Are Louder Than Rocks — drop their debut CD at World Café Live June 12. Find out how loud and how lemony two boys named Dan can be. (A.D. Amorosi/City Paper) "Lemons Are Louder Than Rocks give fans an alternative to the regular outlet of pop by mounting it from a different perspective, while keeping it melodic sounding through its experimental phases. They are a band that makes a difference in the pop world with their first full-length album filled with indie-pop charisma and flighty rhythms." (AbsolutePunk.net) The latest Philly-area band to take familiarly freaky leanings to cool new places, Jersey's Lemons Are Louder Than Rocks rattle off puzzle-pop that you can't help but hum along with. Their too-short tunes marry the easy breeze of folk with the eerie dimensions of a drug-addled psych, which explains how they can follow an acoustic show at World Cafe Live with a sure-to-be-volatile appearance at the Khyber. Not since Dr. Dog has our city seen such an accessible yet strange spin on bouncy '60s songbooks: "Ballad in Anything but Eb" is silly enough for Sesame Street, while "Gallo
