Haven't looked at Dissensus in days, mainly because I'm an MBV obsessive, so I've been buried deep in all this shit. Can't be bothered to read back too far in the thread but here's my experience...
I was shitting myself when I heard the first three tracks. Didn't like them at all at first.
Started to feel more comfortable at track four, when things got a bit more "electronic".
By track seven, my jaw was on the ground. "in another way" is already one of my fave MBV songs. The whole last two-thirds of the album is incredible, including "new you", which I love.
Some more scattered thoughts...
Much more complex songwriting than before. Harmonically weird and often very Beatles-y.
Those first three tracks sound almost like generic shoegaze. They've grown on me but it's really not what I'm after.
The mastering is weirdly compressed, given how much Kevin talked about not wanting to make the remasters too compressed. I think he wanted this one to sound more contemporary, not like a museum piece.
The drum & bass element is great - not cheesy at all. Kinda like how they incorporated the hip-hop influence into "Slow".
It is what it is - a collection of tarted-up outtakes from 1996. But it's MBV, so it's still ten times better than whatever it is you like.
That is all.