A perfectly good 90's, Smithsy album, with hints of the Radiohead that would follow in the swooning sweeping vocals and the noisy guitars that crop up now and then, and more generally of the loud / quiet, hard / soft aesthetic that would dominate much of the underground / alternative era. The faster songs are certainly the strongest, sporting out some nuanced, energetic riffage, while the longer songs get too swirly for their own good, meandering off to nowhere.
This album was hotly anticipated in the UK and went on to be a massive hit. I don't hear anything here that justifies that, other than the fact this came out after Ten and Nevermind, but before the emergence of Blur and Oasis, so England might have just been hungry for rock relevance and swelled momentum behind this important, prescient, influential, but retroactively just-good album 3.5/5
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