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The Lemonheads: Creator

Martin Aston, New Musical Express, 20 August 1988

IF AMERICAN post-hardcore is the definitive mix of musical sour and sweet – sour, the sound of fractious guitars, melting, and sweet, the coils of melody mashed into the fire – then Boston's Lemonheads are the most suitably named yet. 

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