Tanya Donelly has never had a whole lot of trouble attracting attention: Her involvement in The Breeders and Throwing Muses led to considerable hype, as well as critical and commercial success, and her post-Muses band Belly had a big hit with "Feed The Tree," from 1993's Star. But King, the band's 1995 sophomore album, hit the commercial tank—thanks in large part to complicated arrangements and a dearth of pop hooks—and Belly recently broke up. Fortunately, Donelly's solo debut, Lovesongs For Underdogs, undoes most of King's accessibility problems: The hooks are fleshed out throughout, and the album opens with impossibly catchy, crowd-pleasing pop tracks like "Landspeed Song" and the single "Pretty Deep." Lovesongs wanders into Juliana Hatfield-esque preciousness a little more than it probably should—especially during its inferior second half—and Donelly does her best Edie Brickell impersonation on the cutesy "Goat Girl." But there are enough solid songs to compensate for Donelly's soul shortage, leaving the album with a healthy supply of jangly pop fun.