... This album is plain epic. Play the clip from "Y Plus White Girl" to get the spaz-guitars, perfect pitch bass, the rattling drums and the emo-esque vocals that made this one fine Q & Not U album. This was the band at it's punkiest and most raw - but like all Dischord releases, recorded with a near perfect polish.
This album is just wonderful, great, excellent, catchy, angular, and a whole host of other adjectives that would fit. I got stuck on this album for a long long time. If you enjoy cap'n'jazz but feel worn down by Tim Kinsella's adolescent (he really was adolescent during C'N'J, to be fair) ranting....if you like fugazi but have a limited tolerance for the seriousness inherent in their approach, then this album is for you, because it's both angular post-punk executed with great talent and fun filled, almost danceable music...... energetic and electric. Those are two more adjectives I would use.
Great albumn to get started with Q & Not U. It used to be my favorite before Different Damage (their second album) grew on me. Check out Little Sparky first if this is your first time listening to Q and Not U.
