Dinosaur Jr. Set April Release For New Album 'Sweep It Into Space', Share First Single I Ran Away
Tuesday, 23 February 2021
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Cara Totman
Dinosaur Jr. have unveiled details of their new album.
Originally scheduled to arrive in mid-2020, 'Sweep It Into Space' is due out on April 23 via Jagjaguwar and was mostly recorded pre-COVID-19, during late 2019 at frontman J Mascis' home studio Bisquiteen in Amherst, Massachusetts.
The follow-up to 2016's 'Give A Glimpse Of What Yer Not' was co-produced by Kurt Vile, who also contributes to the record. After recording with Vile was hampered by the pandemic, Mascis "ended up just mimicking a few things he'd done."
"I was listening to a lot of Thin Lizzy, so I was trying to get some of that duelling twin lead sound," he explained. "But the recording session was pretty well finished by the time things really hit the fan. When the lockdown happened in March, that meant I was on my own. But it was cool."
Alongside the news, the band have posted the upbeat, guitar-charged first single I Ran Away, featuring Vile on a 12-string. Check it out below alongside the record's artwork and tracklist.
'Sweep It Into Space' tracklist:
1. I Ain't
2. I Met the Stones
3. To Be Waiting
4. I Ran Away
5. Garden
6. Hide Another Round
7. And Me
8. I Expect It Always
9. Take It Back
10. N Say
11. Walking To You
12. You Wonder
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