Dinosaur Jr.: Without a Sound (Sire/Reprise); Sebadoh: Bakesale (Sub Pop)
Richard C. Walls, Musician, September 1994
DINOSAUR JR.'S evolution into the J. Mascis show is now pretty much complete, with the drawling troubadour doing all the singing and playing on this new one, assisted by Mike Johnson on bass. Mascis has always been the group's auteur, but now he is the group. And if his vignettes of laconic disaffection — encased in guitar buzz and punctuated by the occasional hyper solo — don't come across, he has no one to blame. Of course, he could always get rid of the bass player...
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