Dinosaur Jr - Where You Been (National Album Day 2023)Pre Order. Released 13th October Formed in 1984, Dinosaur Jr carved a singular path through the latter half of the 1980s and early 1990s, issuing a number of highly influential albums in the process before finding a home with Sire Records. Where You Been, their fifth record, emerged in 1993, at the height of enthusiasm for grunge and the alternative American rock scene the band had long been part of. Produced by a new line up of the group (longtime

“Anyone Else But You” (another song from the aforementioned album)

Early DJ pioneers such as Dillinger and Prince Jazzbo both feature here toasting over classic songs - The Mad Lad's Ten to One and The Eternals' Queen of the Minstrel

Elsewhere there are the gorgeous harmonies of the grown up country lament "Good Enough"

Freedom Flight is a treasure of deft

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mentorship and collaboration they have been privileged to share with this master musician

With powerful signature tracks such as 'Symptom of the Universe' and 'Hole in the Sky' which became firm fan favourites

Architecturally it was The Eve Club

Improvisation is a key element to their sound

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and even when luck momentarily works out

As well as many of the bass and sequencer parts the modular also supplied the chords by tuning each one of its five oscillators to specific notes and intervals