They used to be a âBrooklyn bandâ. They got married, moved to the Vermont woods, and built a studio in a two-hundred-year-old barn that they named âFreelandiaâ. They grow marijuana, like country and American indie rock, and they are never going back again.
Appearing from that haze of love and hash with an ounce of creative clarity thatâs ripe for public consumption, the couple are pleased to present: âLemon Treesâ.Â
Their debut single, if you want to call it that, is a laid-back, love-lorn, little peach of a song. Or lemon even. Think J Mascis and Hope Sandoval sharing a spliff on a dusky night, waxing lyrical about their shared love of âFables of the Reconstructionâ. Or something like that.
DRUG COUPLE ARE:
Miles – vocals, guitar, bass, harmonica, keys, production
Becca – vocals, bass, guitar, harmonica
You know itâs true what they say. When life gives you lemons, well⊠do that. âLemon Treesâ is a song from the very beginning of Drug Coupleâs journey. It was written as the pair just started getting serious about leaving the city and growing a new life in the sticks. As Miles and Becca clarify:
âThis is a song about the possibility of moving somewhere you can breathe, and grow plants on the earth. And maybe you donât know what youâre doing, and maybe those things you try to grow will die, but you can still try. And that by hanging around the city trying not to miss anything, maybe youâre actually missing out on, like, a whole life.â
Loose and languorous, a little like the couple themselves, âLemon Treesâ ripples like a gentle breeze through a pastel-hued orchard on a long summerâs evening. Its yawning pedal steels and lackadaisical guitars surround a sleepy-eyed duet between Miles and Becca, who hold it all together in some kind of warm embrace. Neat.Â
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Released via the PaperCup Music label, itâs the first of a collection of songs called âStoned Weekendâ, all homegrown in the soils of âFreelandiaâ that Drug Couple hope to share with you very soon.
ALBUM: âSTONED WEEKENDâ COMING SOONâŠ
 DRUG COUPLE – âLEMON TREESâ IS OUT NOW, VIA PAPERCUP MUSIC
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