More Lemonheads than Urge Overkill, less Smoking Popes than Social Distortion, Chicago’s Fig Dish drives fat-chords alternapop out of the Midwest under the speed limit, displaying basic skill rather than self-conscious style. Producer Lou Giordano attaches That’s What Love Songs Often Do to the same sort of sizzling forcefield he erected for the Goo Goo Dolls’ A Boy Named Goo, and the quartet — singer/guitarists Rick Ness and Blake Smith, bassist Mike Wilson and drummer Andrew Hamilton — fills it out with catchy, dynamic songs. Able to conjure up a potent haze of slacker sloth and then obliterate it with a fierce rock assault (see “It’s Your Ceiling” for a concise demonstration), Fig Dish keeps attitude out of the effort, concentrating on simply effective tunes like “Rollover, Please” (remade from a ’93 indie single), the angrily measured “Weak and Mean” and the very Dando-esque “Quiet Storm King,” which even has an uncredited female voice joining in on the chorus. Good nourishing fare.