Songfacts®:

• "Sweet Vibration" finds Brian D'Addario of The Lemon Twigs trying to reach some kind of equilibrium with the universe. The song begins with two verses that are so bright and cheerful they practically beam with sunshine, all set in the perky key of F major. But just when you're starting to feel like you've got a handle on this giddy happiness, the chorus dips into the murkier waters of D minor, as if to remind you that not everything is as rosy as it seems.
  
  "With everything that's going on in the world right now it's difficult to know where you fit in," D'Addario told Mojo magazine. "Most people I know feel that heaviness."
• The song closes with a flourish of poetic imagery:
  
  Breathe that lovely aroma, hear the sound of birds
  Hear the sound of birds
  Hear the sound of birds
  
  When performed live, the Lemon Twigs have a delightful trick up their sleeves. They segue from "Sweet Vibration" into a snippet of the Byrds classic "Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)" - a clever auditory pun inviting you to "hear the sound of Byrds."
• "Sweet Vibration" is a track from the Lemon Twigs' fifth album, A Dream Is All We Know. The D'Addario brothers - Brian and Michael - crafted the record entirely in their North Brooklyn studio, bar one of the tracks that features Sean Ono Lennon. They eschewed the slick, modern digital sound for analog tape and spring reverb. The result? An album that sounds like it was lovingly unearthed from a time capsule buried in the 1960s.