After years of relative silence – which has done little to relieve him of his slacker-defining reputation – Dinosaur Jr’s main-man and guitar-god J Mascis is back as a solo act and doing what he does best; writing the perfect angst-ridden pop songs and then drenching them in distortion. Old fans know who they are and will be there. Potential fans must know this – without J there wouldn’t have been a Nirvana…
