Album Review: Love Chant by The Lemonheads

If you want to know what (apart from the cover albums and handful of tours) they have been doing in that time, well, bass player Farley Glavin and drummer John Kent have largely not been in The Lemonheads, and they appear here as impressive reminders of the band's three-piece glory. With Glavin drilled by the 30th anniversary It's a Shame About Ray tours, that's hardly a surprise. Evan Dando? What's he been doing? Thanks to what used to be called a multimedia blitz, the answer to that lies in his new diverting autobiography which opens with that most reliable of tropes: hitting rock bottom.

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The last two Lemonheads records were all covers, so the prospect of Evan Dando writing an all-new record for the first time in over a decade is a monumentally exciting prospect for a listener who spent all of 11th grade with It’s a Shame About Ray on repeat. Early press suggested that Dando had pulled out all the stops, bringing in old pals like J. Mascis and Juliana Hatfield for his big comeback season, which includes this record and a memoir.

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There is seemingly nothing you could tell Evan Dando about himself that he hasn't heard before. On 'Love Chant', The Lemonheads' first studio album in nearly two decades, Dando lays bare the heartbreak and discontent endured over a life of hedonism and music, one often speculated about but never fully understood. Rather than an album filled with laments on his past, it hears Dando's bittersweet return to himself.

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