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Met dank aan de originele posters indien het niet door mij geript is...
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05 - The Lemonheads -  - Be-In.flac 
06 - The Lemonheads -  - Cell Phone Blues.flac 
07 - The Lemonheads -  - Togetherness Is All I'm After.flac 
08 - The Lemonheads -  - Marauders.flac 
09 - The Lemonheads -  - Love Chant.flac 
10 - The Lemonheads -  - The Key Of Victory.flac 
11 - The Lemonheads -  - Roky.flac 
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The Lemonheads - Be-In.txt 
The Lemonheads - Cell Phone Blues.txt 
The Lemonheads - Deep End.txt 
The Lemonheads - In The Margin.txt 
The Lemonheads - Love Chant.txt 
The Lemonheads - Marauders.txt 
The Lemonheads - Roky.txt 
The Lemonheads - The Key Of Victory.txt 
The Lemonheads - Togetherness Is All I'm After.txt 
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Exystence Review ---------------
The Lemonheads – Love Chant (2025)
Filed Under: indie-rock by exy — Leave a comment
October 23, 2025

August 13, 2025.
An Evan Dando in-store appearance at Rough Trade Records, East London.
The evening is a mix of old originals (‘Confetti’, ‘My Drug Buddy’) and covers plus anecdotes about Jackson Pollock and a word-perfect rendition of Peter Cook’s Coal Miner sketch
(“I didn’t have the Latin”). Looking simultaneously bedraggled and regal, like a lion surprised by a sudden rain shower, Dando is scrappy, vulnerable, heartfelt, and enervated.
You sense he feels uncomfortable singing his own songs.
In fact, the only Dando composition delivered with complete ease and self-belief is a new one, ‘In the Margin’.
Written with Massachusetts friend and collaborator, Marciana Jones, it’s an eviscerating break-up song (“If periphery is what you give /I’ll leave you in the margin”)
reinforced on the album by a series of gnarly Dinosaur Jr.-style riffs.
Yet, in the context of that evening’s performance it felt like modern Evan parting ways with old Evan (“I’d rather die than let your thoughts confine me”).
That’s certainly an argument that gains weight when listening to Love Chant.

Produced in São Paulo by Brazilian composer Apollo Nove and centred around a core trio of Dando, bassist Farley Gavin and drummer John Kent, Love Chant might also be described as scrappy,
vulnerable and heartfelt, but it is also loose, exuberant and animated in a manner that seems faithful to who Dando is today.
Album opener 58 Second Song, another Marciana Jones co-write, is brisk, bittersweet power pop about a toxic relationship that might also be a song about Dando escaping his own past.
But it’s not all clear sailing. With its J.Mascis guitar solo and Julianna Hatfield backing vocal, Deep End is a Tom Morgan co-write mired in the brown murk of old habits
(“coughing up a ghost…Better double down the dose”)
while the riff-stealing Wild Thing takes us deep into the world of coercive cults and Charles Manson (“If you really love me then you’ll do this / And you won’t begrudge me if I do that”)
before the swaddled and slurred Be In finds Dando freeing himself from an abusive past with a new love (“I needed a new world to be in…This world is you”).

Side Two by contrast, begins to feel like that release.
Together Is All I’m After and Marauders are stoned memorandums on the importance of being in the moment while the title track is hypnotically motorik positivity based
around the repeated phrase “Tell ’em the way I feel”.
However, with escape comes self-awareness.
Penultimate track, Key Of Victory, is a stoned country-rock drift that shines a light on Dando’s own inescapable flaws (“life’s too short to live a sparkling lie”) while the
gloriously euphoric melancholy of album closer Roky, brings lacerating honesty about the singer’s own 2019 slide back into junk (“I just renewed my membership/ to a club that I
joined/with a casual flip of a worthless coin”).
In the past, that song might have felt like resignation but, like the rest of Love Chant, it now feels like a defiant escape from the traps of a dark past.
— MOJO

Oor Review ---------------------
John Denekamp 24 oktober 2025 album indie The Lemonheads Love Chant FIRE/KONKURRENT

Niet meer verwacht, toch nog gekomen: een Lemonheads-album met nieuwe liedjes van gevallen indierockheld Evan Dando.
Het kostte hem negentien jaar, in de tussentijd verschenen er alleen twee coverplaten.
Een hardnekkige heroïneverslaving beheerste drie decennia zijn leven, maar hij schijnt er eindelijk vanaf te zijn.
De 58-jarige Dando trouwde vorig jaar met een Braziliaanse en woont tegenwoordig in São Paolo.
Mooi om te zien dat zijn oude vrienden hem niet hebben laten vallen: J Mascis soleert herkenbaar in Deep End, Juliana Hatfield doet veel achtergrondzang en
Dando schreef weer samen Tom Morgan van Smudge, waarmee hij veel van zijn beste liedjes maakte.
Zijn lagere stem is even wennen, maar Love Chant gaat prima van start met de punky gitaarpopsongs 58 Second Song, Deep End en In The Margin.
Het sprankelende van de jaren negentig is er natuurlijk vanaf.
Dando klinkt nu doorleefd, al zijn de melodieën nog steeds pakkend.
De riff van Wild Thing is gebaseerd op de gelijknamige hit van The Troggs en in de titelsong zijn The Lemonheads niet onaardig aan het krautrocken.
De melancholieke countryrocker Togetherness Is All I’m After is een hoogtepunt, net als de folkballad The Key Of Victory.
‘I’m living anarchy’, praatzingt hij daarin als een gebroken man zonder spijt.
Evan Dando haalt op Love Chant niet zijn oude niveau, maar de plaat mag er zijn – en dat is al heel wat.