J Mascis + The Fog – Free So Free (Vinyl)
These solo albums are, for the most part, no different from any Dinosaur Jr. release, and exhibit songwriting that is as strong as anything Mascis has ever penned. The 2002 album from Mascis and the Fog, Free So Free, is the album that Warner Brothers wish they would’ve gotten from the ’91 Mascis, hits and all.
Mascis’ chosen route of thick, straightforward rock has changed little since he first began releasing records, and Free So Free could easily pick up from any point in his career. Songs done under J. Mascis and the Fog moniker differ very little from those done as Dinosaur Jr., and Mascis’ songs are still simple, clever, and catchy.
Here, his guitar is sludgy and dense as ever, but as with More Light (the previous J Mascis and the Fog release), the production and timbre of the recording captures Mascis’ guitar tones with full clarity and grinding power. Like his friend and sometimes recording parter Robert Pollard, Mascis seems to pull from an unending well of innovative chord progressions and melodies, but while Pollard’s floodgates remain perpetually open, Mascis seems to be more of a mind to pluck and perfect, or at least refine. And indeed, over 10 songs and forty minutes, Free So Free does not have a notable weak spot.
Black Vinyl LP
Tracklist:
Freedom
If That's How It's Gotta Be
Set Us Free
Bobbin
Free So Free
Tell The Truth
Someone Said
Everybody Lets Me Down
Say The Word
Outside
These solo albums are, for the most part, no different from any Dinosaur Jr. release, and exhibit songwriting that is as strong as anything Mascis has ever penned. The 2002 album from Mascis and the Fog, Free So Free, is the album that Warner Brothers wish they would’ve gotten from the ’91 Mascis, hits and all.
Mascis’ chosen route of thick, straightforward rock has changed little since he first began releasing records, and Free So Free could easily pick up from any point in his career. Songs done under J. Mascis and the Fog moniker differ very little from those done as Dinosaur Jr., and Mascis’ songs are still simple, clever, and catchy.
Here, his guitar is sludgy and dense as ever, but as with More Light (the previous J Mascis and the Fog release), the production and timbre of the recording captures Mascis’ guitar tones with full clarity and grinding power. Like his friend and sometimes recording parter Robert Pollard, Mascis seems to pull from an unending well of innovative chord progressions and melodies, but while Pollard’s floodgates remain perpetually open, Mascis seems to be more of a mind to pluck and perfect, or at least refine. And indeed, over 10 songs and forty minutes, Free So Free does not have a notable weak spot.
Black Vinyl LP
Tracklist:
Freedom
If That's How It's Gotta Be
Set Us Free
Bobbin
Free So Free
Tell The Truth
Someone Said
Everybody Lets Me Down
Say The Word
Outside
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