J Mascis is unsure whether he wrote and recorded Heavy Blanket’s sophomore long-player, Moon Is, as a therapeutic, a tonic administered via electric guitars that have been pushed into warm sympathetic frequencies and heated under the hot lamp of overdrive and fuzz.
When asked if that was the intention he takes a beat before confessing that, really, he hasn’t given it much thought. Maybe that’s the point. The album finds Mascis jamming out on big riffs and squirrelly lead guitar in the company of good friends Johnny Pancake on bass guitar, Pete Cougar on drums, Sleezy Crisp plays keys while Mascis’s Witch bandmates Graham Clise and Dave Sweetapple check in to offer ancillary rhythm guitar and bass respectively on the title track and Crushed.
