Dinosaur Jr - Give A Glimpse Of What Yer Not review: 'they’ve never sounded so accessible’

The reunited trio pack more emotional punch than ever before on album eleven
Magnificent: the grunge trio crank out muscular riffs on their latest album
John Aizlewood5 August 2016

J Mascis, Lou Barlow and Murph (the trio responsible for their 1985 debut, Dinosaur, who bitterly fell apart in 1989) re-united in 2005

Dinosaur Jr - Give A Glimpse Of What Yer Not
Dinosaur Jr - Give A Glimpse Of What Yer Not

Surprising themselves as much as anyone else, the formerly squabbling pop-grunge pioneers are still together 11 years and four albums later. Curiously for a band who sabotaged their own major label career by drone, they’ve never sounded quite so accessible.

Murph and Barlow are a magnificent engine room, but Mascis cranks out muscular Byrds-style riffs at every turn, most startlingly on the effervescent Tiny, and where he used to drown his choruses in a guitar swamp, they’re now pushed to the front.

When he slows things down on the rather lovely Mirror, he packs more emotional punch than ever before. Excellent.

(Jagjaguwar)

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