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Whoever said artists should have to suffer for their art? Presumably, someone who never had to suffer much. Musicians, like writers, are still too often tagged with this bizarre assumption that creating their art should require an arduous grappling with their muse, borne of pain or sadness. Unfortunately, the past six months have brought with them a surfeit of suffering; it’s still hard to talk about almost anything without referring back at some point to the hardships many of us have dealt with this past year, courtesy of COVID-19. But thanks to a miracle of medical science and the vast majority of people sane enough to understand the need to get vaccinated, things are feeling a lot more hopeful than they have been in a long time.
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Have we reached that point? The moment where all those bands we loved from the end of the 20th century who broke up and then reformed up are now content, happy to paddle in their own surf?
For Dinosaur Jr., the temptation must be enormous to think just that; having almost single-handedly invented scuzz rock with 1988’s Bug, the modern music business, with its algorithmic playlisting and handy skip functions, must seem a world away from the sticky carpeted backrooms of the trio’s founding years.
It’s been almost half-a-decade since their last outing Give A Glimpse Of What Yer Not, some of the delay caused by you-know-what, but on first listen you could be forgiven for having the impression Sweep It Into Space is just a slightly different – if, granted, comfortable and lockdown-friendly sized – t-shirt.
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Dinosaur Jr. have announced their 12th studio album and shared its lead single, ‘I Ran Away’ featuring Kurt Vile.
‘I Ran Away’, released Tuesday (February 23), is the first new music from the band in almost five years. It will appear on their new album ‘Sweep It Into Space’, which is set for release on April 30 via Jagjaguwar.
The track features Vile playing 12-string acoustic guitar. Vile also served as the album’s co-producer, alongside frontman and guitarist J Mascis.
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The band have also shared a visualiser for the single, featuring work from the album’s cover artist Andy Hope.
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