Short Reviews [The Lemon Clocks - 2019 - "Between Time And Space"]

Here we have the fourth album by The Lemon Clocks, but while Jeremy Morris and Stefan Johannson were still there, this was the first one since the passing of Todd Borsch, to whom this is dedicated. He has been replaced by Oscar Granero, and together the three multi-instrumentalists (with Jeremy on lead vocals) have produced yet another power pop psychedelic wonder. Given the album was recorded in Sweden, Spain, and the USA I presume they all worked in their own studios, yet this never sounds like a project but rather a full band recording in the same time and space. I reviewed the earlier albums a while back but have not played them for a while (such is the life of a reviewer, always looking forward and rarely back), so cannot say immediately if the change in personnel has had much impact but given that Jeremy and Stefan were always the primary songwriters, I don’t think there has been. 13 songs, all originals, here we have another release which fits well inside Jeremy’s solo canon as perhaps unsurprisingly this is very close indeed to material he releases when he is working on his own. However, what The Lemon Clocks does is provide continuity for Jeremy as it is rare for him to keep releasing albums with the same personnel, and 12 of the songs are co-writes with Stefan (Jeremy and Oscar co-wrote the other) which allows him to bounce ideas and must provide a quite different recording and writing experience for him. I have long admired Jeremy’s work, and this 2019 is yet another solid example which is well worth discovering.