The fourth episode of the rebooted Dinosaur Jr show sees our leading men settling into a comfortable mid-season routine. Gnomic titles, introverted lyrics directed at a vaguely defined “you”, and yearning vocals rippling through an extravagantly brutish soup of sound: this band’s 30-year narrative arc is a straight line. As ever, it’s unclear exactly what the songs are about, although you’d suspect there aren’t many meditations on a Trump presidency. An obvious highlight is exuberant pint-spiller Tiny, but singer-guitarist J Mascis’s inarticulate speech from the heart peaks somewhere in the middle of pocket epic I Walk for Miles. Always watch the quiet ones, they say, but sometimes you’ve got to watch the loud ones too.
