Rough Trade have revealed their selection of Best Albums Of The Year and we’re pleased to see The Lemonheads’s acclaimed album ‘Love Chant’, Tropical Fuck Storm’s astonishing album ‘Fairyland Codex’ and Throwing Muses’ return ‘Moonlight Concessions’.
Albums of the Year
#14 The Lemonheads – Love Chant
#24 Tropical Fuck Storm – Fairyland Codex
#34 Throwing Muses – Moonlight Concessions
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#14 The Lemonheads – Love Chant
After years of writing, wandering, and starting over, Evan Dando returns with Love Chant, the first Lemonheads studio album of original material in nearly two decades. Long in the works and shaped by shifting geographies and a cast of trusted collaborators, it’s a bold, melodic reaffirmation of one of alternative rock’s most distinctive voices.
To celebrate the album will be exclusively available at Rough Trade on limited edition picture disc alongside Two Weeks In Australia Two – a live record that features songs from across the band’s career.
“A delight: funny, playful, filled with killer riffs and sunny melodies… all of it driven along by an invigorating immediacy.”
★★★★ The Times – BEST OF 2025 SO FAR
#24 Tropical Fuck Storm – Fairyland Codex
“Their incendiary and acerbic best” ★★★★ The Line Of Best Fit
“Thrilling” ★★★★ Uncut
★★★★ MOJO
#34 Throwing Muses – Moonlight Concessions
“Hersh again manages to carve out a distinct sonic identity” The Quietus
“A quirky, off-kilter ode to the wonderful oddities inherent in life as it’s lived” Paste
“Still predictably startling” ★★★★ Uncut
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