The Lemonheads - Hate Your FriendsReleased for RSD 2021 (July Drop) Hate Your Friends is the 1987 debut album by the Lemonheads, one of only three full length releases to feature the original band line up of Evan Dando, Ben Deily, and Jesse Peretz. The album showcases a hardcore punk to pop rock sound and sensibility as playfully fierce as it is surprising especially to listeners who know the band only from their better known major label recordings of the 1990s. Yellow vinyl

an autobiographical set that reflected the solitude and landscape in which it was recorded (Los Angeles)

Infectious beats back a sonic malady you really don’t mind catching

It’s a release that is loaded with smooth grooves

performed and recorded by Alejandro's son

Johnny Cash

and all around style and philosophy on top of their superb music

Arrangements are architecturally precise

This edition marks the first reissue of the highly sought-after and impossible to find album

But if I keep on doing my own personal work on myself—writing records like Quietly Blowing It—I have to think that I’m getting closer

I'm so grateful to have it released again and it's sounding better than ever thanks to an amazing mastering job by Kramer

the song articulated the loneliness of the long-distance musician – and it sounded great

engineered by label mate Steve Albini