“California X hail from Amherst, Mass., so you figure they'd have to reckon with the daunting specter of Dinosaur Jr. no matter what they sound like. Chalk it up to youthful audacity, then, that the band uses their debut double-A-side on The Sounds Of Sweet Nothing to confront the Mascis head on. Recorded with Justin Pizzoferrato (whose credits include Sonic Youth, and, yup, Dinosaur Jr.), "Mummy" ”
