The third album by the Scottish band, and an album that managed to beat out Nirvana's "Nevermind" as Spin Magazine's "album of the year".
The album starts off promisingly enough, "The Concept" runs through noisy pop into some divine Beach Boys-esque harmonies and then a pleasant instrumental outro. That song is followed by the noisy dervish of "Satan" which opens with a frenzy of noise that segues into a bit of rock.
From there on though, it falls into a pretty samey sound across the rest of the album. It's not a bad sound (think the Byrds, or early-era Beatles pop songs and vocal harmonies but with washy distorted guitar), but after the variety of the first couple of tracks the rest of the album felt like a bit of a cool off.
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