1991's Green Mind was the first post-Lou
Barlow album. It starts in a 'business-as-usual' way, rather abruptly with J
Mascis riffing away on The Wagon. This track comes across as a little
Dino-by-numbers, it's not as strong as their previous openers. However the rest
of the album settles into a mellow groove. Tracks like Puke + Cry, Water and
the Mellotron-dominated Thumb have a less urgent, more melodic feel than
previous albums.
Mascis does a Barlow-style, 'sensitive'
acoustic number Flying Cloud, and stripped of the electric bombast his voice
sounds weedier than ever. It's not all mellow gold, How'd You Pin That One On
Me barrels along but leaves little impression, while the choppy guitars on Muck
and the title track don't really convince.
It was hard to identify what Barlow added
to Dinosaur Jr. But on this evidence there's definitely something missing here.
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