As part of National Album Day 2025s celebration of rock, Jagjaguwar are making Dinosaur Jr.s twelfth album available on limited edition Opaque Light PurpleBlast Vinyl. Here is Sweep It Into Space, the fifth new studio album cut by Dinosaur Jr. during the 13th year of their rebirth. Originally scheduled for issue inmid-2020, this records temporal trajectory was thwarted by the coming of the Plague. But it would take more than a mere Plague to tamp down the exquisitefury of this trio when they are fully dialed-in.

Sweep It Into Space is a masterpiece of zoned dialing. Recorded, as usual, at Amhersts Biquiteen, the sessions for Sweep It Into Space began in the lateAutumn of 2019, following a West Coast/ South East tour. The only extra musician used this time was Kurt Vile. Indeed, Sweep It Into Space is a very coolalbum. As is typical, Lou Barlow writes and sings two of the albums dozen tunes and Murphs pure-Flinstonian drumming drives the record like a go-cart fromHell. Lous songs here are as elegant as always. But there are very few moments where you wouldnt know you were hearing Dinosaur Jr. in blindfolded needledrop. They have a signature sound as sure as the Stooges or Sonic Youth or Discharge ever did. They continue to expand their personal universe with Sweep ItInto Space, without ever losing their central core.

TRACKLISTING
A1.I Ain’t
A2. I Met The Stones
A3. To Be Waiting
A4. I Ran Away
A5. Garden
A6. Hide Another Round
B1. And Me
B2. I Expect It Always
B3. Take It Back
B4. N Say
B5. Walking To You
B6.You Wonder