{"id":7364,"date":"2012-09-12T22:00:52","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T05:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=7364"},"modified":"2012-09-12T22:00:52","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T05:00:52","slug":"dinosaur-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/09\/dinosaur-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"DINOSAUR JR"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7365\" title=\"DINOSAUR-JR-M-Review-JulyAugust2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/DINOSAUR-JR-M-Review-JulyAugust2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/DINOSAUR-JR-M-Review-JulyAugust2012.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/DINOSAUR-JR-M-Review-JulyAugust2012-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>D<\/strong><strong>INOSAUR JR.<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>I Bet on Sky<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Jagjaguwar]<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>It sounds like a funny thing to say about a band whose catalog includes the songs \u201cPuke + Cry\u201d and \u201cPointless,\u201d but Dinosaur Jr. has taken a moony romantic turn on recent albums. Sure, it\u2019s an awkward, mumbling kind of romance, paired with churning bursts of guitar sludge, but the group\u2019s latest is way more tender than the howling odes to alienation found on earlier albums. Instead of pushing people away, singer J Mascis beckons shyly over a mellow descending guitar riff on \u201cAlmost Fare,\u201d does some soul-searching\u2014 paired with wah-wah guitar\u2014on \u201cI Know It Oh So Well,\u201d and sounds like he\u2019s yearning for something on \u201cWhat Was That.\u201d And is that piano on \u201cStick a Toe In?\u201d Don\u2019t think the band has gone soft, though. Mascis can still peel paint with guitar solos like the shrieking whirlwind that rips through the riff-heavy workout \u201cPierce the Morning Rain,\u201d and bassist Lou Barlow sounds ready to come uncoiled on his terse contribution, \u201cRecognition.\u201d \u2013Eric R. Danton<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DINOSAUR JR. I Bet on Sky [Jagjaguwar] It sounds like a funny thing to say about a band whose catalog includes the songs \u201cPuke + Cry\u201d and \u201cPointless,\u201d but Dinosaur Jr. has taken a moony romantic turn on recent albums. Sure, it\u2019s an awkward, mumbling kind of romance, paired with churning bursts of guitar sludge, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,4598,4789,2064,4538],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7366,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7364\/revisions\/7366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}