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The Lemonheads: The Lemonheads

Andy Gill, The Independent, 22 September 2006

TEN YEARS AGO, on the last Lemonheads album Car Button Cloth, Evan Dando was apologising for his dissolute, druggie lifestyle, hanging his dirty laundry out to flap about in the breeze of public opinion. Having cleaned his act up, he made his solo debut in 2003 with Baby I'm Bored — and could still be found reflecting on his earlier fecklessness in songs like 'Why Do You Do This To Yourself?'. That album offered a broad church of styles and, while enjoyable enough, it made few ripples in the marketplace.

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