I've avoided all TBSM related threads since it leaked, and made myself wait until tonight - the night before the AZ show - to finally take a listen. I have to say that I got a slightly uncomfortable feeling when the album started. It's weird, not in the usual Melvins weirdness that I've become accustomed to, but different this time. It was as if I forgot what the Melvins were supposed to sound like, and I was listening to them for the first time again, and being slowly drawn into their awesomeness all over again. I think it's going to take a few more listens for the album to really grow on me, for sure on certain songs (I'm not digging The Water Glass), or maybe after I see it live it'll all make sense again. But for now I'm reliving the first time I was exposed to the band, and being further imersed in all their glory.
