Domino recently released Lou Barlow’s new album, Goodnight Unknown. In the four years since his career-redefining, mostly acoustic record Emoh, Lou Barlow has reunited with Dinosaur Jr. and reissued three of Sebadoh’s classic albums. But as Goodnight Unknown illustrates, he’s hardly living in the past. Borrowing the live-band energy of Dinosaur Jr. and the stylistic reach of Sebadoh, Barlow has built on Emoh’s full production and written a set of immediate, melodic pop songs that Lou describes as, ‘a cross between my later work with Folk Implosion and my earlier work with Sebadoh … to my ears, anyway’.
Empire Of The Sun / We Are The People
I saw the video on Italian TV. The song reminds me of being a kid listening to pop radio in the 70s. The chorus overwhelms me, with echoes of Al Stewart.
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