LOU BARLOW: The Making of His Record ‘Goodnight Unknown’

Domino will release Lou Barlow’s new album, “Goodnight Unknown.” In the four years since his career-redefining, mostly acoustic record “Emoh,” Lou Barlow has reunited with Dinosaur Jr. and reissued three of Sebadohs classic albums.

But as the brilliant new “Goodnight Unknown” illustrates, he’s hardly living in the past. Borrowing the live-band energy of Dinosaur Jr. and the stylistic reach of Sebadoh, Barlow has built on Emoh’s full production and written a set of immediate, melodic pop songs that Lou describes as, “a cross between my later work with Folk Implosion and my earlier work with Sebadoh to my ears, anyway.”