The Lemonheads announce new album, tour

After years of writing, wandering, and starting over, Evan Dando returns with the first Lemonheads studio album in nearly two decades.

Long in the works and shaped by shifting geographies and a cast of trusted collaborators, Love Chant is set for release on October 24 via Fire Records.

Now based in Brazil, where much of the album was recorded, Dando’s relocation in recent years has offered a quiet shift in perspective — a chance to reset, reconnect, and finally bring these songs into focus.

Arriving this autumn alongside Dando’s memoir, Rumours Of My Demise (out via Faber on November 6), Love Chant, produced by Brazilian multi-instrumentalist Apollo Nove, also features old friends and new allies. J Mascis (Dinosaur Jr), Juliana Hatfield, and Tom Morgan (as co-writer for Deep End) rejoin the fold, alongside producer Bryce Goggin (Pavement), Nashville’s Erin Rae, John Strohm of the Blake Babies co-wrote and played guitar on Togetherness and Nick Saloman of The Bevis Frond — a songwriter and performer on Roky. Adam Green of cult New York favourites The Moldy Peaches also contributes as co-writer on Wild Thing.

Earlier today, the band shared lead single In The Margin, which you can listen to below.

A classic Dando composition: half-broken, half-beautiful, wrapped around a melody that disarms before it detonates, The Lemonheads leader says, “I wanted to have a riffy song, so I wrote riffs all over it. The body of the song was Marciana’s (Marciana Jones). It’s like a full-on 8th grade girl revenge song: ‘Stupidly I left the escape plans out so they could find my way.”

The band has also announced tour dates in the UK, Europe and the United States which you can purchase here. (Full UK and European August / September tour dates also below).