Give A Glimpse Of What Yer Not

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Apocalyptic drums crash right into the face of a buzzsaw synth whilst a minimalistic guitar twangs in the corner of the room. This is music for the future. This is music for the end of times. It’s a shock that a group of middle-aged blokes from New England could reinvent themselves so late into their career.

Of course, that first paragraph is a complete utter lie. Dinosaur Jr know exactly what they’re good at, and they’re not going to change for anyone. Not even you. Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not, the eleventh studio album by the Massachusetts fuzzsters, takes us way back to their late Eighties heyday. We’re talking riffs as fuzzy as a furry little thing and drums that demolish your eardrums after a night down the local sludgefest.

J Mascis has a knack of making his guitar ‘licks’ sound equally warm and sweaty. Opener ‘Goin Down’ demonstrates this perfectly. Sunny riffs are layered on top of sunny riffs, painting a picture of a lost day down at the skate park smoking some rather questionable funny cigarettes.

‘Tiny’ gallops along soon after, teasing the eardrums with what is perhaps the best song the group have released in a decade. It’s a bit like Nirvana doing the Vaselines, but without the indie posturing and bad accents. It’s Nineties music for the twenty-first century, which might sound awful, but it’s really really bloody not. We could all do with more noise in our lives, it helps you forget about all the real issues in this funny little world of ours.