"Garden" is a mid-paced ballad with genteel guitar filigree giving it a '60 Brit feel in spots. Lou's songs here are as elegant as always. As is typical, Lou Barlow writes and sings two of the album's dozen tunes and Murph's pure-Flinstonian drumming drives the record like a go-cart from Hell. Indeed, Sweep It Into Space is a very cool album. But when the Lock Down happened in March, that meant I was on my own.
Like the mini digital mellotron on 'Take It Back.' Originally I'd thought I'd have Ken Mauri (who has done keyboard work for Dino in the past) come in and play piano. So I just ended up doing more things by myself. “But the recording session was pretty well finished by the time things really hit the fan. I was listening to a lot of Thin Lizzy, so I was trying to get some of that dueling twin-lead sound. J Mascis says, "Kurt played little lead things, like 12 string one at the beginning of 'I Ran Away.' Then I ended up just mimicking a few things he'd done. The only extra musician used this time with Kurt Vile.
Recorded, as usual, at Amherst's Biquiteen, the sessions for Sweep It Into Space began in the late Autumn of 2019, following a West Coast/South East tour. produces is nothing but a beautiful new version of the rock continuum - riff, power, beat, and longing, created with an eye on the infinite future. The subsequent generations of bands who grew up breathing Dino's fumes managed to tinker around with the edges of their original post-hardcore song-forms enough for listeners to realize there had always been melodies at the center of everything they did. In the decades since the release of Dinosaur Jr.'s original triptych of foundational albums, it has become clear that their sound - once hailed as a sort of almost-tamed noise - is/was/always-has-been fully functioning pop music of a sort. And Sweep It Into Space is a masterpiece of zoned dialing. But it would take more than a mere Plague to tamp down the exquisite fury of this trio when they are fully dialed-in. Originally scheduled for issue in mid-2020, this record's temporal trajectory was thwarted by the coming of the Plague.
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You can hear touches of Vile’s influence on the off-kilter, piano-driven pop of “Take It Back,” as well as in the bittersweet chimes of first single “I Ran Away,” which sounds like a clear (yet distinctly fuzzy) descendent of Jackson Browne’s 1977 classic “Running on Empty.” But by design, Dino’s 12th full-length delivers and continues to refine exactly what Vile has come to love and anyone who’s paid attention for the last four decades might expect: wave upon strangely comforting wave of J Mascis’ supernatural guitar work (“To Be Waiting”) and natural melancholy (“I Ain’t,” which features loopy backing vocals from Vile), plus a Lou Barlow-penned highlight that ranks among his best (“Garden”).Here is Sweep It Into Space, the fifth new studio album cut by Dinosaur Jr. “That’s the Dino I like.” Five years later, Vile’s formally entered the fray as a co-producer on Sweep It Into Space, a follow-up that further reinforces the notion that the legendary indie rock outfit is the rare band to actually improve since reuniting, as they did upon restoring their original lineup in 2005. In a promo video for Dinosaur Jr.’s 2016 LP Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not, singer-songwriter Kurt Vile offered a hearty endorsement as he listened to the album for the very first time: “Riffs, sad lyrics-that’s my Dino,” he said, his daughter seated beside him and his speakers blaring.
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