The Lemonheads - Deep End / Sad Cinderella The Lemonheads

This 12” single teases new material from The Lemonheads, with their first album of original songs in nearly two decades arriving later in 2025. Rekindling the near-perfect pop for which they’re famed, the single focusses on the light and dark balance of their impending new album, ‘Love Chant’. 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’ 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. 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 Juliana Hatfield.