Lou Barlow

Fri., Oct. 9, 9 p.m., $28, with Dinosaur Jr. and Bob Mould, TLA, 334 South St., 215-922-1011, livenation.com.

by K. Ross Hoffman

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Published: Oct 7, 2009

Eric Fermin Perez

indie rock

For a mopey introvert, Lou Barlow has accomplished a hell of a lot. Prior to establishing the '90s lo-fi template with Sebadoh and scads of heart-sleeved home-recorded cassettes, before scoring a flukey actual-hit with the exceedingly swell Folk Implosion, Barlow stroked a burly, barreling bass guitar for grunge trailblazers Dinosaur Jr. (and was summarily dismissed just before the band's major label breakout). Through it all, he's been a prolific, perceptive songwriter first and foremost, so it fit when he started issuing straightforward "solo" records like 2005's uncharacteristically polished, folky gem EMOH, and the mid-fi mixed bag Goodnight Unknown (out this week on Merge), some of whose typically rueful relationship postmortems could be read, with a grain of conjecture, as belated reflections on his Dino Jr. days. This tour has gotta be an odd mixture of catharsis, delayed gratification and emotional dissonance for Barlow, who's both opening for and playing with the recently exhumed Dinosaur. Fans should expect plenty of dissonance and gratification, as well.

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