Without a Sound

Performer: Dinosaur Jr.
Artist: Thalia Zedek
Engineer: John Agnello
Producer: J Mascis
Distributor: WEA (Distributor)

Notes: Dinosaur Jr.: J Mascis (guitar, vocals, drums, keyboards); Mike Johnson (bass, vocals, Mellotron, guitar). Additional personnel: Kurt Fedora, Roger Mayer (guitar); Greg Dwinell (pedal steel); Walter Sear (Theremin); Thalia Zedek (background vocals). Personnel: J Mascis (vocals, guitar, keyboards, drums); Mike Johnson , Thalia Zedek (vocals); Yeah Right (guitar); Roger Mayer (sound effects). Audio Mixer: John Agnello. Recording information: Baby Monster Studios, Manhattan, NY; Dreamland; Sear Sound Studios, New York, NY; Wendell Recording Studio. Historians of the over-hyped Generation X take note. What is perhaps the quote of the era has arrived, and it's not borrowed or cliched. The opening track of Dinosaur Jr.'s newest, WITHOUT A SOUND, embraces the standard of apathy that young America lives by in the imaginations and on the covers of national news magazines. "I feel the pain of everyone," admits frontman J. Mascis, "then I feel nothing." As usual, Dinosaur Jr. marries Mascis' stifled Neil Young whine to his barrage of electric power chords and acoustic meanderings. Utilizing a mixture of proper concern for his peers and a disenfranchised intolerance for his generation's reputation, the album is not without insights into the 1990s. WITHOUT A SOUND doesn't stop at sociological patter. From the quiet, self-analytical moments on the single "Feel The Pain," it slips into the ear-splitting feedback drenched guitar on "Grab It." WITHOUT A SOUND is Mascis' newest sampling of cultural immersion.

Entertainment Weekly (9/16/94, p.120) - "...If this Smurf look-alike has become God to a new, grungeful people, it's thanks to the soaring emotion that flies from his guitar..." - Rating: B+ Option (11-12/94, p.97) - "...is not Dinosaur's definitive release. Yet there are those blistering guitar solos, that lonely, aching falsetto, that grungy disquietude straight out of ON THE BEACH. It is great." Musician (8/94, p.85) - "...Mascis comes across as someone who wants to appear not to care too much, while at the same time worrying that this bogus detachment may become genuine....Fortunately, Mascis is in fine form..."

Formed in Amherst, Massachusetts during the mid-1980s, Dinosaur Jr. crafted punky, ramshackle songs that featured J. Mascis' sleepy vocals and meandering, feedback-drenched guitars. After a series of well received indie releases, culminating with 1988's BUG, bassist Lou Barlow departed to form Sebadoh, and the band (Mascis and drummer Murph) signed with a major label. In 1991, the group released their masterpiece, GREEN MIND, an album that displayed a poppier, dreamier sound. However, Dinosaur Jr. was essentially a Mascis solo project by this point, and although Murph and other musicians appeared on subsequent albums, Dino Jr. remained a Mascis-driven vehicle until he officially went solo in the late '90s.

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