I somewhat agree about its solidity, but somewhat not: the moments I
imagine Ned finds "failures" still allow you to sink into them in
their own slow-fuzzy way. "Lazy Day" and "Does this Hurt?" compete
for slots on my personal list of the greatest possible tracks, ever.
Shoegaze, yes: but I think what puts this record above the pack of
its contemporaries is its willingness to expand -- the Boos were,
surprisingly, one of the only shoegazer outfits to apply the central
shoegazer principles to ideas and song forms other than the standard
issues. We can assume this was because they were secretly a pop band.
In fact, would it be safe to say that
? That the initial shoegazing was actually just a surface-
level adornment to what they were
― Nitsuh, Saturday, 2 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link