You can hear the impact of that guitar tone on opening track and lead single “Several Got Away,” a blown-out power-pop tune that gets a lot of mileage out of Mascis’ violent jangle-fuzz. His voice is still incomparable, as is his shredding; both talents come to the fore at the heart of the track, when the band segues from an emotional peak to a ripping solo. Nearly two decades after the original lineup got back together, it’s easy to take the alchemy between Mascis, Lou Barlow, and Murph for granted, so let’s not.<\/p>\n
Director Guy Kozak shared this statement on the “Several Got Away” music video:<\/p>\n
\nI wanted to do something a little tongue-in-cheek with a kind of “backyard movie” feel that could fit in nicely with the existing canon of dinosaur jr. music videos. The first bit of inspiration came from a great Henry Darger painting of kids being terrorized by two giant floating hands of fire. Then I got thinking about the rapture and it came together from there. The guys were really game for it all and I was honored that they let me chase them around a big field with my camera like a psycho. We were on a tight schedule with the turnaround so I had to learn a lot of VFX stuff over the course of weekend, but I like the way the effects all turned out.<\/p>\n
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Watch below.<\/p>\n