Every Nirvana album sounds different. They are like Celtic Frost and Alice in Chains that way.
'In Utero' finds Nirvana adding in alot of noise rock elements to their sound, but they still have the same pop friendly type of song-writing present as well.
Still this is a drastic departure from 'Nevermind'. I couldn't imagine 'Scentless Apprentice' being on 'Nevermind'! Heck I find it hard to believe that such a hard-core song wasn't relegated to the b-side of this album. Guess the track listing proves that with this album Nirvana was going to do it their way!
Seriously though this album is pretty dang lo-fi-ish for a major label release. Nothing like this would be released today, nothing! 'In Utero' 20 years on helps to show how horrible the music industry has gotten recently! Everything is just so over-produced now! Yuck!
As for the production of this album (always a hot topic with Nirvana albums it seems) I actually kind of feel let down a little by Steve Albini. The guitar sounds good, the bass sounds good. But the drums don't have that 'Surfer Rosa' sound that I always anticipate an Albini album to have. Frankly I think the bass drum sounds like crud.
'In Utero' shows Nivana going out on top, they had everything going on this album. Mid-tempo jams like 'Serve the Servants', slow songs like 'All Apologies' and also fast aggressive Heavy Metal-like numbers such as 'Scentless Apprentice'!!
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