This record taught me three important things. First, it taught me that racecar is indeed racecar backwards, whoda thunk it? Second, it taught me that I had shed my distaste for sing-then-shout vocals. It was possible for me to exit the ‘either shout or sing well, choose one’ camp. Third, it taught me that I could fall in love with an album primarily based on the (analog) drumming, which is what contributed to my first several listens of this album many years ago.