To begin with, it's the first album in years from a band that's now attained "classic" status. Fine fine, sure sure, all usual reunion fears attend and overextend, even: MoB was of the generation that opposed reunions and the gross sentimentality that the very idea of reunions tends to suggest. What's more, the sort of music they made - the anti-blues-rock intervals they favored; the tendency toward lyrical obscurantism, if not outright abstraction; the muddiness of it all - existed, in part, as an antidote to the sentimentalism that informs and motivates "reunions," and things that are "classic," and the intersections of these and innumerable other related tropes. The Black Flag reunion wasn't really that surprising: Black Flag was a rock band, and any opposition to reuniting stemmed more from a subcultural imperative that the right pose be struck at all times than from anything inherent in the music that they made. Ginn and Rollins may have had "creative differences," but Black Flag did not have any creative differences within their own milieu. Mission of Burma, on the other hand, did.