Whereas most power pop bands are pop first and power second, on Amazing Disgrace the Posies are power first and pop second. That’s not to say that this music isn’t hooky; it certainly is, and there are great fist-in-the-air singalong moments throughout. But those moments emerge from a welter of sounds that sometimes evoke Sonic Youth (“Daily Mutilation,” the guitar freakout at the end of “Hate Song”), sometimes Hüsker Dü (“Grant Hart”), and sometimes, believe it or not, Foo Fighters (check out the chorus on “Fight It”). Of course, Foo Fighters were still a new band when Amazing Disgrace came out, so the reality is probably that the stylistic debt goes the other way. In any case, this album is one of the most interesting and complex manifestations of 1990s power pop.