Green Mind by Dinosaur Jr.

Green Mind, Dinosaur Jr.'s fourth studio album, came out in February 1991, the band's first for a major label and its first since J Mascis showed Lou Barlow the door. In practice it's nearly a Mascis solo record: he produced it and played most of the instruments himself, and founding drummer Murph turns up on just three tracks.

What's left is Mascis at his most gloriously lopsided, that sleepy drawl riding waves of feedback and distortion that owe as much to vintage classic rock as to any punk rulebook. "The Wagon" rattles along like it might lose a wheel, and "Turnip Farm" later found its way into the film Reality Bites. The sleeve is a keeper too: Joseph Szabo's photograph Priscilla, Jones Beach, 1969, a kid with a cigarette, taken from his book Almost Grown.

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