Don’t Get Lemon is a cool, ironic, stylish, detached, danceable pop trio based in Austin and Houston, Texas. Commanding a sound that ranges from 70s Berlin to 80s Manchester, DGL seek to entice the senses with their glam infused synth-pop. There is an alternative to DGL, but could we live with it?

Sharing a name with Michaelangelo Antonioni’s 1966 swinging London film, Don’t Get Lemon’s “Blow-Up” glimpses into the unseen dark. Lyrics partially pieced together borrowing from William Burroughs cut-up technique and images inspired by David Lynch’s “Blue Velvet”, direct sweet melodies that reanalyze the 3 minute pop song.


Lyrics & Music by DGL
Recorded Dan Duszynski at Dandy Sounds
Mixed by Chris King at Moon Palace Productions
Mastered by Gianni Peri
Additional Vocals by Darenda Dorsey

design & art direction by nicholas ross

Blow-Up

Blow-Up (De Lux Remix)

Industrial (Amusement) Park (Revolution) (past self Remix)

Have Some Shame

The Crest of a Wave

Pop Star Salvation

Highway 59

Pomp And Circumstance

Last Chance For Romance

Autocratic Gore

Pre-Order the Album:
https://dontgetlemon.bandcamp.com/album/have-some-shame

Listen on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/1HayVqykvuQlDDCLzk2Urv?si=FInunGpsQcymDUXmA70-yw

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Don’t Get Lemon is the collaborative artistic work of longtime friends Austin Curtis, Nicholas Ross, and Bryan Walters. After touring the west coast off of their debut album, “Hyper Hollow Heaven”, DGL returned with new singles Autocratic Gore and Blow-Up, including a remix by De Lux. With DGL’s triumphant second album, “Have Some Shame” the art-pop trio have expanded their sound to glittering new heights as they dance between shimmering synth-pop and stomping glam rock.

This heartfelt sound forms an idiosyncratic identity that also wouldn’t be out of place in a classic John Hughes 80s film soundtrack .

Singer Austin Curtis’ looks and stage performance sits comfortably between the sensual sway of Elvis Presley and the chameleon fluidity of David Bowie. Each performance is an internal battle between masculine and feminine forces punctuated by northern soul style dance movies and the desperate magnetism of Joy Division. Flanked on both sides of him, guitarist/keyboardist Nick Ross and bassist Bryan Walters provide a daring and original take on new-wave acts such as Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Talking Heads, and Simple Minds, as well as contemporaries like LCD Soundsystem, Alex Cameron, and Cold Cave. Together with Curtis’ smooth yet desperate croon, recalling Morrissey and Bryan Ferry, the Anglophile Texans stretch their hands across the Atlantic to fashion a genuine grasp of pop culture past and future.

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