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Nov 17, 2025It may not be quite up there with the band’s classic ’90s releases, but there’s enough quality on display to reassess Dando’s ‘poster boy of grunge turned heroin casualty’ reputation.
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Oct 22, 2025While not as accessible as It’s A Shame About Ray or as punk-focused as Hate Your Friends, Love Chant is an impressive blending of both styles.
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UncutOct 21, 2025The sound overall mostly evokes the primordial, punky, pre-grunge Lemonheads, leavened now as then by Dando's insuppressible pop sense. [Dec 2025, p.33]
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Classic Rock MagazineOct 21, 2025Love Chant is a wonderful and surprisingly vital return to the fray. [Nov 2025, p,75]
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MojoOct 21, 2025Love Chant might also be described as scrappy, vulnerable and heartfelt, but it is also loose, exuberant and animated in a manner that seems faithful to who Dando is today. [Nov 2025, p.84]
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Nov 20, 2025Not everything works in Love Chant. He tries to sound self-serious with his stream-of-consciousness rambling on “Marauders,” but instead, comes across as artfully silly. Still, it’s just one of the many fun detours that Dando takes throughout the album, one whose existence—given his history of substance dependency—feels like a small miracle in itself.
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Dec 22, 2025Love Chant leaves no doubt that he has a ways to go on both his personal and songwriting journeys, but it proves that he’s already well on his way, looking to the past to push his sound—and self—forward.
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Oct 30, 2025‘Love Chant’ takes time to sink in, but it grows on the listener with every return.
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Oct 29, 2025Evolving his signature sound with country and psychedelia is a good fit, and the aforementioned highs make the record worth a listen. Hopefully, this is the first phase of a new chapter for the Lemonheads.