Lemonheads: Evan Dando (vocals, guitar, piano); Nic Dalton (vocals, bass); David Ryan (drums). Additional personnel: Rick James, Juliana Hatfield, Belinda Carlisle (vocals); Sneaky Pete Kleinow (pedal steel guitar). The Lemonheads broke through with 1992's excellent IT'S A SHAME ABOUT RAY, when a rattling cover of "Mrs. Robinson," recorded for an anniversary reissue of THE GRADUATE, became a fluke hit single. This 1993 follow-up was overshadowed by reports of leader Evan Dando's drug problems, and the album sounds suitably idiosyncratic. There's a handful of pure-pop gems--"Into Your Arms," "The Great Big No" and the Juliana Hatfield tribute "It's About Time"--that are among Dando's most winsomely catchy tunes. Elsewhere, the album has an uncomfortable, almost Syd Barrett-like level of psychic distress, as on both versions of the bizarre drug anthem "Style" (one featuring barely lucid interjections by fellow drug casualty Rick James), and the unlisted tracks following the morose instrumental "The Jello Fund." Often disturbing, but oddly fascinating.

• Genre: Rock and Pop
• Format: Vinyl
• Released: 12/09/2014