Pod - Blender

Review

Pod

(4AD/Elektra)
Release Date: 05/28/1990 12:00

Deal’s first release with her side project made it seem like the taut, symmetrical songcraft of “Gigantic” was a fluke—this music is rough-edged and unfinished-sounding. On later albums, such messiness made for rickety charm, but here the effect is a bit like carpentry that never stands as straight as you’d like. Still, there are several happily idiosyncratic moments—Deal’s repeating, two-note moan on “Glorious,” and “Iris,” the rockingest song anyone has ever written about caring for a plant.

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