3. Dinosaur Jr., Farm (‘I Want You To Know’)
Hey… Is it still cold where you are? ‘Cos in this song the distortion and fuzz tastes like ice, and out of the frozen gtr comes a solo which sounds like the light from the wintry sun, hanging low in the sky.
Farm is Dino Jr. upping their game, semi-miraculously, from Beyond. Perhaps the songwriting is better: although the first reunion album was full of great pop songs, and holy-shit-listen-to-that-guitar songs, Farm works better as an album that works like a book, to follow at every chapter. The production seems to have gone up a slight notch as well - the drums sound bigger, the call of the guitar is more clarion than before. Whereas Beyond was somewhere in between a statement of intent and a tour de force (think of the immediacy of ‘Almost Ready’ or ‘Crumble’), Farm is the expansive, reflective-on-reflective second act.
In this album there is music as a wind-tunnel of emotions; not quite the nostalgia-as-novelty of Beyond and the return of Dinosaur Jr. in 2007, but a big, heavy, open-hearted and passionate album which set the musical tone for most of the year. Whether it’s J. Mascis tinkling the ivories (metaphorically speaking) and crooning away, or Lou Barlow piling on the stripped-down folk, Farm is a glorious, assertive roar of rock’n’roll and grungy punk.
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This is one of the bad-assin-est songs ever written by someone over 40.
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