Opener I Ain’t establishes an early sense of bristling anticipation, Mascis and Vile exchanging growling chords as a propulsive bassline and unrefined 4/4 beat crash in. Mascis’ writing and lead playing continue to mature gracefully with his advancing years and these are finely crafted pop songs adorned with some truly exceptional soloing. The band’s familiar fuzz-drenched post-hardcore assault is present and correct throughout their 12th studio album, yet they cover as much stylistic ground as on 2012’s varied I Bet On Sky. It’s not clear precisely what Vile’s producer role entailed, or what Sweep It Into Space would have sounded like if the sessions hadn’t been curtailed, but that’s irrelevant because the finished record is as strong as anything Dinosaur Jr have produced since Mascis and bassist Lou Barlow buried the hatchet in 2005. With the sessions cut short for a record that was originally due to be released in the middle of 2020, Mascis was forced to get the first Dinosaur Jr release since 2016’s consistently strong Give A Glimpse Of What Yer Not over the line on his own, finishing off the guitar work and playing keyboards instead of regular collaborator Ken Mauri. The laconic duo cut an unlikely modern incarnation of Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson, and the plan was never fully realised due to the intervention of Covid. READ MORE: Heritage Custom Core H-150 Review: The Kalamazoo brand’s flagship single-cut gets the Custom Shop treatmentįormer War On Drugs member and acclaimed solo artist Vile was enlisted by Mascis because he “was listening to a lot of Thin Lizzy, so I was trying to get some of that duelling twin lead sound”.You’d struggle to find two more laid-back astral pilots in the musical universe than Dinosaur Jr main man J Mascis and Kurt Vile, producer and co-guitarist on Sweep It Into Space, the fifth album in the 16 years since the Massachusetts alt-rock legends were reborn.
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