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\"Dinosaur<\/a>The track that got me excited to hear the new Dinosaur Jr. record wasn\u2019t a proper song at all, but a seven-minute montage of the album\u2019s guitar solos, leaked ahead of its release to generate buzz. In politics, this clever bit of marketing would be considered an appeal to the base, to the longtime fans who would no doubt salivate over an epic serving of guitarist and primary vocalist J Mascis\u2019 fuzzy-but-nimble sonic handiwork. \u201cEverything is just build-up to the guitar solo,\u201d Mascis once told Spin<\/i>. In this case, the solo is a means to tease everything else. And I am happy to report that the payoff delivers.<\/p>\n

Distorted, driving riffs, moody changes, and Mascis\u2019 nasally slacker vocals deliver an alchemically golden sound that will be familiar to longtime listeners, a sound the band has achieved with remarkable consistency since original members Lou Barlow, who plays bass and occasionally sings, and Murph, the drummer, got back together in 2005. (Mascis kicked Barlow out in 1989 in a famously acrimonious breakup.) Perhaps more polished than they were when they made their mark as alt-rock forebears in the mid-80s, the trio is still noisy, catchy, and relevant. Interestingly, Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not<\/i> (Jagjaguwar) marks the fourth release of their renaissance period, meaning they\u2019ve eclipsed the output of their Reagan-era youth.<\/p>\n

Give a Glimpse<\/i> jumps out of the gate with some big hooks on \u201cGoin Down\u201d and \u201cTiny,\u201d then moves into more brooding territory with \u201cBe a Part,\u201d one of a few tracks that hearken back to how Mascis once described the band\u2019s initial concept: \u201cear-bleeding country.\u201d Moving from jangley to sludgy and back, it\u2019s fully formed and mostly cohesive, and I say \u201cmostly\u201d because when the first of Barlow\u2019s two tracks came on I had to go back and check that I was still listening to the same record. Barlow\u2019s songs are great, especially \u201cLove Is,\u201d which has more of a psychedelic feel than the pedal-pushing Mascis tracks. While it certainly creates some eclecticism in this case, part of me wonders what would happen if Dinosaur\u2019s two vocalists pulled a Speakerboxxx\/The Love Below<\/i>\u2013style double album some time down the road, with each getting an entire record to themselves. Whatever the case, I\u2019ll take whatever Dinosaur Jr. continues to give.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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