Although the ‘atmosphere’ of the the early MM stuff can be distracting (AND GREAT), the lyrics are also subtly nested into the dissonant or often cacophonous clangs in such a perfect way that it is impossible to unsettle them to be left with merely one voice.

I believe Mark should have tried harder to move these songs to something else rather than just trying to put them into a singer/song writer format. Think Gillian Welch’s cover of Radiohead’s ‘Dark Star’.