Lou Barlow has been rolling in the Sebadoh for over ten years. And at long last, he's getting somewhere. "We always gave each other so much room before, that it almost felt like we were making solo records under a band name." Lou is speaking in the reflective glow of contentment at completing The Sebadoh, Sebadoh album number seven. It is by some margin the most cohesive Sebadoh record - though the same could have been (and was) said about each of its three predecessors. What really distinguishes The Sebadoh is its solid core, Sebadoh's core used to be palpably liquid, as each album took stylistic lurches around its protagonists' contrasting, sometimes conflicting, artistic impulses. No more. Where once we heard three voices screaming at once, occasionally to the detriment of the whole, now they talk in harmony. It's no less thrilling, but a whole lot stronger... more...