‘BUBBLEGRUNGE’ COMETH

Lemonheads ★★★★★ It’s A Shame About Ray

(ATLANTIC, 1992)

“Well, you’d see the pain if you were reading carefully,” says Dando of his early-’90s interviews, and the same can be said of this deceptively complex collection of melodic garage-pop heartbreakers. Gorgeous melodies, plaintive harmonies and seemingly effortless rhymes hide a multitude of uncertainties, sorrows and insecurities.