Blonde Redhead - Penny Sparkle

When I first listened to this last year, it seemed a bit indistinct, a bit too pretty and insubstantial. But having returned to it over the last few weeks, I've realised that for all of its smoothness (a process that's been on at least since 23, and probably earlier) and airiness, the fraughtness and jagged edges that, in combination with the band's more dazzling pop impulses, have always been crucial to their genius, are still there, just a bit more subterranean - and that Penny Sparkle is in fact very good, insistent, sensuous, lingering.