Kevin Bronson on May 30th, 2013

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We marvel at this because, at age 23, I’m pretty sure I was still sucking my thumb: Lucy Schwartz’s third full-length album, “Timekeeper,” will be out Aug. 6, the latest chapter in an artistic growth spurt that started when she was at Palisades Charter High (her debut came out in ’07) and then wrote songs for the movie “The Women.” Since then (besides her catalog), she’s written the theme song for “Parenthood” and other material for film and TV, including “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn,” “Shrek Ever After,” “What Maisie Knew” and a slew more. Most recently, new song “Boomerang” closed out the new season of “Arrested Development,” and the show’s creator Mitch Hurwitz trumpeted Schwartz’s new album as “her Sgt. Pepper.” To be sure, “Timekeeper” boasts Schwartz’s sophisticated, older-than-her-years pipes and phrasing, but the artist herself is billing it as a visual project in which she fashions a fantasy world. (Tierney Geron’s monkey photographs are part of it.) It promises to be some thing to see, or hear, or both.

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Photo by Tierney Gearon