Released almost immediately after Beck's first album Mellow Gold, Stereopathetic Soul Manure is a noisier record than his debut, flaunting the experimental rock influences that Mellow Gold only hinted at. For the most part, the record is a nonstop attack of noise and fragmented songs, recalling the mid-'80s records of Sonic Youth and Pussy Galore, yet the occasional pop and folk-oriented song creeps in (though none of them are as well-constructed as those on the debut or his third album, One Foot in the Grave, which followed a few months later).
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