the lemonheads - deep end - fire

The Lemonheads return with their first new album in almost two decades this Autumn. Rekindling the near-perfect pop for which they’re famed, they reveal a brand new single focussing on the light and dark of their impending new album ‘Love Chant’ that will be released on Fire Records this Fall. Ahead of their upcoming tour, The Lemonheads tease new material with new single ‘Deep End’ out 14th May alongside a new music video that was produced by Surreal Hotel Arts. The digital single release will be followed by a super-limited (500 copies only) 12” single available 13th June.

Beautifully ill-balanced, ‘Deep End’ and ‘Sad Cinderella’ traverse the highs and lows of life, perfectly illustrating Evan Dando’s esoteric musical taste.

‘Deep End’ (out May 14th) is a churning riff monster with light-the-blue-touch-paper guitar breaks by J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr, a compulsive fist-in-the-air piece of timeless punk pop, the perfect soundtrack for bumming a cigarette. Co-written with Australian sparring partner Tom Morgan of Smudge and featuring Juliana Hatfield, it signals a return down under for the band with several antipodean live dates scheduled this May.

Says Evan: "I'm beyond stoked to be heading back to Australia, just in time for the release of new music that I’ve been working on, including a single co-written with the incredibly talented Tom Morgan. Australia has always been a massive source of inspiration for my music, and with new music coming soon this feels like a dream come true. It's also a special moment for me, as we wrap up celebrating the 30th anniversary of 'It's a Shame About Ray' and 'Come On Feel The Lemonheads'. To be able to mark the end of that era in Australia, a place that's always felt like a second home, is almost like being blessed to move on to a new moment.”

Meanwhile, the flipside is straight out of the Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris songbook; a cover of the late, great Townes Van Zandt’s ‘Sad Cinderella’, it’s a song for the romantics, a tearjerker that could have made its way onto Neil Young’s ‘Harvest’, or any aching George Jones opus; filled with regret and remorse, it’s a beautifully brittle duet between Evan and Erin Rae.

So, two slices of the born-again Lemonheads; a mature phoenix rising from the ashes of this legendary band who’ve been away way too long.