Written by: Alex Green
The Lemonheads’ long-awaited new album Love Chant will be out later this year.
The track listing is unknown, but singer Evan Dando has confirmed it will be comprised of all original material and that the band’s 2024 single “Fear Of Living” will be on the record.
“We re-did that song,” he said in a recent interview with Cinema Chords. “We have 12 songs on that but we also have another in the can. It’s like a misused situation. I made demos for about a year and a half and played all the drums and everything so that the band wouldn’t play it too raw or anything.”
He went on to say: “I brought my band down to Brazil and we recorded at this guy’s studio called Roy Cicala. He did the John Lennon records, so we have, like, the condenser from Imagine. And we have all this great gear, and it sounds awesome.”
Dando, who now resides in Brazil with his fiancé’, revealed to the Independent that Love Chant will be, …”really psychedelic and heavy and then quiet.”
2025 is set to be a busy year for Dando, whose autobiography Rumours Of My Demise will be out May 1 through Faber& Faber, whose description of the book is as follows: “After Kurt Cobain’s passing in 1994, everyone expected Evan Dando to be next. Rising to fame in the 90s as frontman of the Lemonheads, he was infamous for his decadent lifestyle, from his extensive drug-taking and partying with Keith Richards and Kate Moss to sleeping on floors in his punk days and crashing at Johnny Depp’s house in Hollywood. But despite the rumours that are constantly circulating about him, he has lived to tell the tales.”
