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26-419: Dumb Numbers is the musical project of Adam Harding. Harding selects musicians for each Dumb Numbers project from a large group of friends and collaborators.” Lou Barlow , Dale Crover , Bobb Bruno (of Best Coast ) and others contributed to the first two studio albums. A genre-defying act, Dumb Numbers musical style has been described variously as doom , sludge , and "swooning feedback pop", however there

52-490: A 5 track EP entitled Apocalypse Fetish on Joyful Noise Recordings In April 2021, it was announced that a solo album entitled Reason to Live would be released on May 28 via Joyful Noise. Barlow's first marriage was to Kathleen Billus, with whom he has two children, Hendrix and Hannelore. In May 2015, he married knitwear designer Adelle Louise Burda, with whom he has a daughter, Izetta. (2012) Just Gimme Lou Barlow (A Paperheart Tribute to) Deep Wound In

78-488: A higher production value than many of his previous solo releases. Jason Crock of Pitchfork called it "the most consistently strong record he's released since The Folk Implosion's One Part Lullaby " and wrote that "even if much of it was recorded at home, Emoh' s 14 unassuming folk songs sound like they were created in a professional setting." In November 2005, Barlow toured the Iberian Peninsula to promote

104-485: A popular single for the song "Losercore," on the label Smells Like Records founded by Steve Shelley of the American rock band, Sonic Youth . Barlow has called it "the most finely executed of all my releases" thanks to Shelley, who "made sure this looked and sounded great." Numerous other Sentridoh releases on a variety of record labels followed, including releases on his own Loobiecore label. In 1994, Barlow formed

130-467: A show at Spaceland in Los Angeles the following night. The band then played well-received tours of the U.S. and Europe throughout the rest of the year, and in 2006 headed to Japan, Australia and New Zealand . In 2007, Barlow reunited with Loewenstein and Gaffney to perform the first Sebadoh shows with the "classic" lineup in 14 years. In June 2013, Sebadoh released their first new music in 14 years;

156-650: Is credited with helping to pioneer the lo-fi style of rock music in the late 1980s and early 1990s. His first band, which was formed in Amherst, Massachusetts , was Deep Wound . Barlow has released four solo albums. Barlow was born in Dayton, Ohio , and raised in Jackson, Michigan , and Westfield, Massachusetts . Barlow attended high school in Westfield, Massachusetts, where he met Scott Helland . The two formed

182-492: Is general agreement that none of these labels are definitive. Harding's native country is Australia. He began making music in the mid-90's. Prior to the debut of Dumb Numbers, Harding was better-known as a videographer (having directed music videos for DJ Shadow , Warpaint , Best Coast , Swervedriver , Sebadoh , Lou Barlow , and Magic Dirt ). The self-titled Debut was released on Joyful Noise Recordings in August 2013, with

208-555: The Folk Implosion with singer-songwriter John Davis. The band released several singles and EPs , and in 1995 reached the Top 40 with the song " Natural One ", from the soundtrack to the film Kids by Larry Clark . It remains Barlow's biggest commercial hit. After the release of Sebadoh's eighth album, The Sebadoh , in 1999, the band went on hiatus and its members went on to pursue other projects. Barlow continued to work with

234-763: The Outpatients , played bass in Darkside NYC and is now the guitarist for Frenchy and the Punk . Charlie Nakajima later formed GobbleHoof . J Mascis can often be seen sporting a 'Deep Wound' sweater (knitted by his mother) in Dinosaur Jr. photographs. In April 2004, Sonic Youth played a show at John Green Hall on the Smith College campus in Northampton, Massachusetts with J Mascis and Sebadoh as

260-786: The 1988 release of their third album, Bug , and the initial supporting tour, Barlow was kicked out of the band. In 2005, Barlow rejoined the band alongside the original drummer, Murph . Since then, the band has reissued its first three records, toured extensively worldwide and released five new records, Beyond , Farm , I Bet on Sky , Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not , and Sweep It Into Space . After his dismissal from Dinosaur Jr., Barlow turned his attention to his band Sebadoh , which he had formed earlier with multi-instrumentalist Eric Gaffney . The project featured low fidelity recording techniques and combined Barlow's introspective, confessional songwriting with Gaffney's discordant noise collages. Bassist and songwriter Jason Loewenstein

286-657: The 1990s. As Sebadoh grew in popularity and critical acclaim, Barlow continued work on the Sentridoh side project, which featured mostly home-recorded material similar to his output on the first three Sebadoh albums, but often recorded solo and with a less consistent sound quality. Sentridoh released a trio of cassette -only albums on Shrimper Records in the early 1990s, with the highlights later being collected on CD and vinyl compilations like Winning Losers: A Collection of Home Recordings 89–93 (1994) and Another Collection of Home Recordings (1994). In 1993, Sentridoh released

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312-463: The Folk Implosion, releasing One Part Lullaby in 1999. Barlow took a break from the Folk Implosion in 2000 to collaborate on the album Subsonic 6 with Belgian musician, Rudy Trouvé . In 2003, Barlow released The New Folk Implosion featuring Imaad Wasif on guitar and Sebadoh drummer Russ Pollard on drums. The same year, he appeared as a musician in the film Laurel Canyon . In

338-563: The Lemonheads , My Bloody Valentine , and Sebadoh during the latter half of 2013. Reports of the band's live performances on tour were positive. According to the Brooklyn Vegan, "Their sludgy, doom went over pretty good." Lou Barlow Louis Knox Barlow (born July 17, 1966) is an American alternative rock musician and songwriter. A founding member of the groups Dinosaur Jr. , Sebadoh and The Folk Implosion , Barlow

364-491: The Massachusetts-based hardcore punk band Deep Wound . J Mascis joined the band after answering their ad for a "drummer wanted to play really fast". After becoming disillusioned with the constraints of hardcore, Deep Wound broke up in 1984. Mascis and Barlow reunited that year to form Dinosaur, later Dinosaur Jr. Mascis and Barlow had personality conflicts throughout Dinosaur Jr.'s early existence, and after

390-649: The Wave , was released on September 4, 2015, on Joyful Noise Recordings . It was recorded in six days with Justin Pizzoferrato, who also worked as a sound engineer for Dinosaur Jr. at Sonelab Studios in Massachusetts. The tracks from Brace the Wave feature Barlow's ukulele playing. Barlow also took 100 original Polaroid selfies to accompany the VIP vinyl edition of the album. On October 28, 2016, Barlow released

416-612: The album. Barlow released his second solo album, Goodnight Unknown , in October 2009 on Merge. It was produced by Andrew Murdock and featured numerous guest musicians, including Imaad Wasif on guitar and Dale Crover of the Melvins and Murph on drums. Barlow toured the album in the U.S. in the fall of 2009, opening for Dinosaur Jr. and backed by The Missingmen of Mike Watt + the Missingmen . Barlow's third solo album, Brace

442-585: The band recorded its self-titled EP, released on Radiobeat Records, and contributed two tracks to Gerard Cosloy 's Bands That Could Be God compilation LP. Studio recordings of a later session with Gerard singing have apparently been lost. As the band progressed, they began playing faster and faster, eventually developing a blur-type sound that could verge on experimental noise. Deep Wound disbanded in 1984 with J Mascis and Lou Barlow going on to form Dinosaur Jr . Barlow later left Dinosaur Jr. and formed Sebadoh , Sentridoh , and Folk Implosion . Scott Helland formed

468-557: The cover art for the first LP and Malcolm Bucknall provided artwork for the second album. Lynch and Harding released a seven inch split together on Joyful Noise Recordings in 2015. David Yow ( Jesus Lizard ) directed a video for the debut album's single which appeared at Rolling Stone . The band's roster for live shows fluctuates depending upon the touring schedule of members. Personnel who consistently appear onstage during Dumb Numbers shows include Harding, Murph (of Dinosaur Jr. ), Bonnie Mercer, and Steve Patrick. Dumb Numbers toured with

494-449: The early 1980s, J Mascis and Deep Wound vocalist Charlie Nakajima lived in Amherst, Massachusetts , and attended the same high school. In 1982, guitarist Lou Barlow met bassist Scott Helland at the Oi! singles bin in a local record shop. Soon after, Helland posted a flier looking for musicians who were influenced by bands such as Anti-Pasti and Discharge . Mascis responded to the ad and

520-551: The music was released as an EP precursor to their new album, "Defend Yourself," which was released in September 2013. Both of the new EP and LP albums were released through Joyful Noise Recordings . Barlow released the first album under his own name, Emoh , in January 2005 on Merge Records . It featured long-time collaborators such as Sebadoh members Jason Loewenstein and Russ Pollard and Lou's sister Abby Barlow, and featured

546-419: The opening acts and the anticipation was that the two would reunite for a few Dinosaur Jr. songs. Unexpectedly though, after J Mascis' set, he returned to the stage on drums and Charlie Nakajima came out to address the crowd. Lou Barlow and Scott Helland soon appeared and the stunned audience witnessed a one-song Deep Wound reunion. In 2005, British record label Damaged Goods released a Discography LP compiling

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572-699: The single ("Redrum") premiering in the AV Club and in InSound's weekly mixtape. The video for "Redrum", directed by David Yow , premiered in Rolling Stone, and Spin the following month. Reviews of the album were generally positive, citing an atavistic and primal indie-rock sound. Since that time, Dumb Numbers II, the Stranger EP, and numerous other side-projects and singles have been released. In addition to his work on Dumb Numbers, Harding also plays in

598-452: The spring of 2004, Barlow briefly reunited with Loewenstein for the "Turbo Acoustic" Sebadoh tour. During this tour, he also reunited with J Mascis for a performance of the song "Video Prick" with former Deep Wound vocalist Charlie Nakajima. This performance led to a full-fledged Dinosaur Jr. reunion in 2005, with original members Barlow, Mascis and Murph performing "The Lung" on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on April 15, 2005, and

624-765: The super-group Kidbug . The list of personnel involved with Dumb Numbers include, but is not exclusive to: Adam Harding, Murph (of Dinosaur Jr. ), Bonnie Mercer ( Warpaint , Swans ), Steve Patrick (Useless Children, Magic Dirt ), Lou Barlow (of Dinosaur Jr. , Sebadoh , Folk Implosion et al), Dale Crover (of Melvins , Altamont , Nirvana ), Toshi Kasai (of Deaf Nephews Studio in Los Angeles), David Yow (of Scratch Acid , The Jesus Lizard , Qui , Flipper ), Bobb Bruno (of Best Coast ), Thor Harris ( Swans , Thor & Friends), Jenny Lee Lindberg ( Warpaint ) and others. David Lynch ( Blue Velvet , Twin Peaks ) did

650-498: Was added to the line-up in 1989. Sebadoh's early releases include The Freed Man (1989) and Weed Forestin' (1990), the latter of which was originally self-released under the name Sentridoh in 1987. Both albums were officially released by Homestead Records , as was the band's third album, Sebadoh III (1991), which helped establish the " lo-fi " subgenre and became a defining album of 90s indie rock . The band released several studio-recorded albums on Sub Pop Records throughout

676-600: Was driven by his father to Barlow's place in Westfield to audition as the band’s drummer. Although the band already had a singer, Mascis convinced them to replace him with Nakajima, and Deep Wound's line-up was complete. The band quickly recorded a demo cassette and began to play shows in Boston with local hardcore bands such as SSD , The F.U.'s , Jerry's Kids , etc., and often opened for hardcore punk bands playing in Western Massachusetts. Shortly thereafter,

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