Gruff Rhys: Dim Probs 12″

The Lemonheads tease new material with this super limited 12 single. Rekindling the near-perfect pop for which theyre famed, the single focusses on the light and dark balance of their impending new album Love Chant that will be released on Fire Records this Fall. Beautifully ill-balanced, Deep End and Sad Cinderella traverse the highs and lows of life, perfectly illustrating Evan Dandos 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, it signals a return down under for the band with several antipodean live dates scheduled this May.

Meanwhile, the flipside is straight out of the Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris songbook; a cover of the late, great Townes