Sped-up AC/DC-ish punkers with lotsa dueling Les Pauls and shouted background vocals. They haven’t written their “Ace of Spades” or “Whole Lotta Rosie” yet.
Below the Sound compact dry nagging riffs with a mechanical rabbit-punch whacking from different angles until you’ve been worked over by a sock fulla golfballs.
Sounds like nothing else Mudhoney has ever done, something apparent with the first droning notes of eight-minute-plus opener “Baby, Can You Dig the Light.”
This should’ve followed Scared Straight. The hollowed-out three-chord punkers that dominated the last two albums are replaced by well-crafted rock songs.