Very MBV as others have said. I felt that Bloom was really kind of an (uninspired) expansion on (the far better Teen Dream), and I think that they were concerned with stagnating creatively with the sweeping cinematic soundscapes they created on Teen Dream. I'm glad they're starting to move away from their pop sensibilities ("Sparks" seems to employ pop song structure, but melodically, the chords are deliberately dissonant/atonal). Glad to see they're experimenting, though I'm not terribly pleased with the results this time. I'll have to wait to listen to a higher quality version later. 10:32 (live performances are on YouTube) sounds BRILLIANT, however.