Lemonheads : The Lemonheads : Review : Rolling Stone

For the Lemonheads' first album in ten years, singer Evan Dando has recruited a crack team of collaborators, including Dinosaur Jr's J Mascis and one of the most formidable rhythm sections in the history of punk rock: Descendents drummer Bill Stevenson and bassist Karl Alvarez. At its best, The Lemonheads sounds exactly how you want the Lemonheads to sound -- "Rule of Three," "Let's Just Laugh" and "No Backbone" apply that same gnarled mix of country, alt-rock and punk Dando has used ever since It's a Shame About Ray and Come On Feel the Lemonheads. But the better tunes were actually penned by Stevenson or Dando's old writing partner Tom Morgan, of the Australian group Smudge; few of the Dando-authored tracks can compare to Stevenson's hard-stomping breakup anthem "Become the Enemy" or the ode to his late father, "Steve's Boy." Dando does his dulcet-throated slacker-frontman thing as winningly as ever, which ought to set aquiver the panties of aging Gen X gals everywhere. Me, I'm saving the quivering for a Bill Stevenson solo album.

JENNY ELISCU

(Posted: Oct 3, 2006)

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Okay, I expect everyone to grow up, but if you are a rock star, and especially a Lemonhead, don't turn into a sour prune. I am not saying this of the whole album, just Become The Enemy. It is anything but stomping, more like put my tail between my legs and tap lightly away. This is coming from a person a "me" who feels wholly with her heart and I felt that the song was so cerebral and didn't give to emotion, it could hardly be called a break up song, but then it was written by a guy, though if he got dumped he would feel with more than more feeling than a cold spoon.

Nov 14, 2006 16:52:45

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