NEWS 2021/08/12
“I wanted to be too quiet for the aggressive people and too angry for the acoustic people—I just wanted to sit somewhere no one belonged.” Lou Barlow has never felt at ease within just one setting. Like his previous solo efforts, the soft-spoken, grizzly-faced singer/songwriter’s new album, Reason to Live, is framed within the context of acoustic folk sensibilities, a noticeable contrast to the bombastic and abrasive delivery of his other band Dinosaur Jr. “I think that was my initial inspiration and introduction to underground music was really extreme noise music,” Barlow says. “But at the same time, I’ve always really loved acoustic music. You can hear it on ‘Poledo’—a song I kind of tape-collaged together on the second Dino Jr. record—and on early Sebadoh.” “Something I’ve r...
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