Creator (Vinyl) (Reissue)
Vinyl Reissue!
‘Creator’ is the second album by legendary Boston band The Lemonheads. Still featuring the full original line-up of Evan Dando, Ben Deily, and Jesse Peretz, the album also includes John P. Strohm (of the Blake Babies, Antenna, and Velo-Deluxe) on drums.
From the oddly surreal album cover image (a snapshot of friend and high school classmate Ivan Kreilkamp, originator of the name Lemonheads, clutching a box of Cheerios) to the themes of death, dreams, obsession, and mayhem that haunt the material, ‘Creator’ is weird, ambitious, and markedly moodier than its predecessor without having lost the band’s irreverent sense of humour. Also evident in this sophomore effort is a newfound attention to idiosyncratic detail from the precisely timed inter-song pauses and sound clips, to the carefully-crafted song order of the album s original 13 tracks.
Recorded in one coherent series of sessions unlike its predecessor, ‘Hate Your Friends’ and its follow-up ‘Lick,’ ‘Creator’ is, for all its musical schizophrenia, arguably the most coherent of the Lemonheads TAANG-era recordings.
