Farm | Loppylugs

Submitted by Neil Hornsey on 16 February 2013 - 10:27pm

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Artist:

Dinosaur Jr

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a_71

Nationality:

USA

Year:

2 009

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Track-listing:

Pieces*I Want You To Know*Ocean In The Way*Plans*Your Weather*Over It*Friends*Said The People*There's No Here*See You*I Don't Wanna Go There*Imagination Blind

Length-in-mins:

Nominator:

Bean

meeting-ID:

m_27

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Spotify-URL:

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Grooveshark-URL:

Farm/3349970

Short-title:

farm

nominator-ID:

u_13

Meeting-date:

Friday, 26 March 2010

MusicBrainz-URL:

release-group/b133859c-0853-4b52-9374-999adff7fea3

Wikipedia-URL:

Farm_(album)

Spotify-link-type:

album

Metacritic-URL:

farm/dinosaur-jr

Discogs-URL:

Dinosaur-Jr-Farm/master/139729

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reviewed by

Neil Hornsey

Stick in the ear plugs and turn it up

2-4-6-12

A very typical Dinosaur Jr album, one that takes their early sound and original line up and combines it with Mascis's latest production techniques - if you can call it that. The result is relentless, non stop over driven guitar fuzz.

But there's some great tracks in there too. He has a habit of writing catchy, melodic songs with great choruses, and there's no shortage of them here; for me it's a great listen with lots of singing along.
70

reviewed by

Glyn Lewis

Hey Hey, My My / Rock and Roll Can Never Die

6-8-10

9-12

This is an album effectively without any production or arrangement in the studio – the guy has written some songs and the band have got together and played them. No re-evaluation or re-construction of the music has gone on at all, post composition it seems. Artistes probably think thery're being honest just playing the stuff but I think it's a real missed opportunity and shows a lack of curiosity in sound.

The sound they go for is overdriven rhythm guitar, big bashy rock drums, occasional soaring, searing lead lines and slightly flat typical whiney rock vocal style. But all of these elements actually seemed spot on and sit together comfortably and the songwriting was also of a good standard. It is a very established, conservative, unadventurous sound in many ways but effective in an ‘if it ain't bust don't fix it’ sort of way.

The work in places really was very similar to Neil Young, whatever you or Dinosaur Jr may say about that. The way he slows pieces down, the way he warbles and his voice breaks up, the intonation in his voice, the guitar effects on both lead guitar and rhythm guitar, some bass pedals that came in at some point, the guitar solos that go on for slightly too long, some lyrical themes and probably other stuff. For some passages, if you asked bands to do a Neil Young pastiche I doubt any band could do it better, even the man himself and his Crazy Horse. It's interesting to me the idea that there would probably be very little crossover between fans of both camps – at times they inhabit almost exactly the same location in terms of their sound but appeal to different audiences and both lots would probably be keen to spot the differences between them. Maybe that idea isn't interesting to you, I don't know.

Anyway, another long album, which would have felt a lot longer if songs weren't good enough – I was surprised to find I mostly enjoyed it.
60

reviewed by

Matthew Baker

Mascis on autopilot

2

Definitely a Dinosaur album, but feels like they're gong through the motions. J's guitar still shreds it, but the songwriting is not up to what you would expect bar a couple of moments.
48

reviewed by

Richard Norbury

Disappointing. Was expecting a lot more from a big name.