#experiencing mbv

There is no "Kevin Song", there's no mellow fuzz like "Sometimes"--both of which seem to indicate something is wrong with the album but it's just overall abrasive but almost like there's two forms of abrasiveness?

There's the "No Tomorrow"/"Rough Song" beautiful, textured abrasiveness and then there's the bagpipe having an aneurysm ("In Another Way")/microphone on ecstacy in a wormhole ("Wonder 2") hard-hitting abrasiveness. The balance and seperation, and sometimes blending, of the two is just overall great.

And the guitars are there, still as perfect as ever, but I love how it's not so up front and emphasised to the point where you can't appreciate the other aspects. For instances, THE DRUMS. And Bilinda's angelic vocals, and describeless (?) other instrumentation.