Dinosaur Jr. – “Farm (15th Anniversary Edition)”

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Farm encompasses Dinosaur Jr.’s signature palette:soaring and distorted guitar, unshakable hooks, honey-richmelodies. At times wholly 70’s guitar-epic, at times perfect forsitting by a babbling brook with Joni and Neil, these songs getinto your head and stay there, bouncing happily around. Theear-catching “Plans” is nearly seven minutes of classicwhipped-topping rock dessert, while “I Don’t Wanna Go There”is a meat-and-potatoes main dish, mixing unapologetic leadguitar with straight-ahead delivery a la James Gang or HumblePie.This expanded deluxe edition of Farm features four songs neverpressed to vinyl and never given worldwide release:”Houses”,“Whenever You’re Ready” (The Zombies Cover), “Creepies”(Instrumental), and “Show”. “Whenever You’re Ready”, a cover ofclassic pop-rockers The Zombies, is impossibly good for ahidden gem; Murph stomps in with a sledgehammer to the kit,J and Lou layer low-end and fuzz like two halves of one brain,and right when things feel biggest, airy and colossal, there’s Jwith a lightning bolt of a guitar solo. Pure electricity and melodylike only he can make. Recorded in J Mascis’ Bisquiteen studio inAmherst, Massachusetts, Farm was produced by Mascis himself,and delivers the singular, unique energy of one of America’sgreatest living rock bands.