Reason to Live
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Album • May 28 / 2021 • 17 songs, 44m 10s
Indie Folk
Singer-Songwriter
Noteable
Dinosaur Jr’s bassist embraces indie rock roots in a solo return.
Lou Barlow's 2021 album Reason to Live begins with a glob of analog cassette noise and some vintage four-track murk, and for a second, one wonders if Barlow followed the lead of John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats, who after years of working in upscale studios returned to his trusty if wobbly-sounding boombox to record 2020's Songs of Pierre Chuvin.
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To listen to Reason to Live—the latest album by indie rock legend Lou Barlow—is to listen to a recalibration.
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Back in the mid-90s, Lou Barlow told now-defunct music mag Vox about his childhood beginnings as a songwriter. Castigating a family member’s