The Stranger, May 17th, 2007
DINOSAURJR. Beyond (Fat Possum Records) *** In the heady days of 1987, the 15-year-old me believed that the bombastic songs of Dinosaur Jr. (then, simply Dinosaur) expressed everything worth saying. Their angsty, uncertain sound was sometimes sweet, sometimes lonesome, and always furious in its crush of roiling guitars. So when the original band re-formed and recorded a new album after nearly 20 years apart (the result of an ugly split between guitarist/vocalist J. Mascis and bassist Lou Barlow) my first reactions were appropriately adolescent. "Flick yeah," I thought. And then, "But it'l...
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