it's a matter of taste, really. 'the mollusk' is a great little subversive pop record with a lot of humor and versatility, 'the pod' is just a really fucked up record. other than the catchy hook songwriting & wide range of styles, 'the pod' doesn't really have anything in common with 'the mollusk', and even the catchy hooks are buried pretty deeply under lots of meandering, experimenting, and general low-fi fuckedupness. even the sense of humor on 'the pod' is different, really dark and random. it's a VERY different kind of sound, and i think it's brilliant once you dig into it, but it requires a lot of effort and patience.
you should probably test drive some tracks, like "right to the ways and the rules of the world," "laura" and "molly." those aren't the best tracks, but they're pretty representative of how it sounds.