It was far from harmonious when Lo-Fi pioneer Lou Barlow parted ways with original grunge band Dinosaur Jr - but 16 years later they are reunited.

The outfit pioneered that blistering, uncompromising, guitar-driven sound which went on to ignite the Nirvana-led alternative revolution. Yet behind the scenes there were tensions between Barlow and founding bandmate J. Mascis.

After a scandalous meeting between the three band members in July 1989, Barlow walked away from the pow-wow believing the group had split up - only to find out later that Mascis and drummer Murph had fired him.

"We did let him believe we had split up," admitted Murph much later. "That was the evil thing. J. and I were just spineless."

Despite waging a very public and painful war against Mascis - with hate-filled songs like The Freed Pig and Asshole aimed at him - Barlow did not come off so badly in the long term. Dinosaur Jr never again regained the heights of the punky temper tantrums they had known as a trio, whilst Barlow formed new band Sebadoh, often referred to as 'the quintessential lo-fi band of the Nineties.'

Sebadoh had started as a sideproject, which Barlow begun with multi-instrumentalist Eric Gaffney several years prior to his spell in Dinosaur Jr, but it took on a life of its own when he left the band. It was conceived as an off-the-cuff, bare bones home recording project which has now been credited with bringing Lo-Fi culture into the mainstream.

Barlow also went on to form Folk Implosion, featuring tensely melodic and entrancing, sampled beats and catchy song hooks.

Now Barlow has released Emoh (Home backwards), a solo album of engaging folk songs. This differs to previous solo works, released under the name Sentridoh, which were used strictly as a way of using up material that didn't fit into Barlow's Sebadoh or Folk Implosion guises.

"For the first time I have taken what I think are my best songs to make a solo record, as opposed to sort of collecting odds and ends," he says. "It's weirdly like a debut record, because I have been kind of saving the songs for the perfect time and the right mood in the recording."

Perhaps because of the consistency of his away-from-Dinosaur Jr success, or maybe it's just a result of the maturity age brings, but Barlow seems to have ditched the bitterness at his former bandmates. Despite having rarely had anything positive to say about his estranged buddies in the years since their parting, he is now talking enthusiastically about the re-release of Dinosaur Jr's first three albums - Dinosaur Jr., You're Living All Over Me and Bug - and, shocking everyone, has picked up his bass to get on stage with Mascis and Murph for a series of Dinosaur Jr. reunion shows.

"I thought those records were pretty genius on J's part," he concedes. "I felt like I was in the presence of serious talent, so it's kind of neat to see them come out again.

"I've mellowed considerably. I carried a lot of anger around after they kicked me out of the band. But I let a whole bunch of that go.

"It happened such a long time ago that it just seemed pretty goofy to continue being angry at someone who kicked you out of their band when you were 22 years old."

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