Audio fidelity of any given part frequently changes drastically from song to song, and sometimes even within a song. Parts come in and drop out. Odd quasi-incidental recording artifacts drift in in company with expected elements, so that a sparkling guitar melody will bring along an odd insectoid buzzing, and a rich harmony vocal seems to arrive over phone lines that are overdue for replacement. Drums turn up missing on more than one track where their presence seems anticipated. The flow of the record over time is nearly as strange as its arrangement across the musical spectrum.
Songs start and stop with little warning, and with no evident concern for anything like completion.
Several last long enough to stick in the mind as coherent pieces, but I'm not sure there's a single track here that wouldn't sound strange pulled out of the context of the album and played on its own. I'm sure this isn't why Guided by Voices hasn't gotten any airplay I'm aware of, but it can't help. The credits list twenty tracks in the album's not-epic 37 minutes, but the number of disconnected musical passages is rather higher even than that. The three-minute benchmark, you can deduce, is paid no heed. The lyrics are, like the rest of the album, sensible taken a phrase at a time, but hard to fathom in larger chunks.