The Fall - Fall Heads Roll

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5...according to our Clinton on Mon 27 Nov, 2006.

Hurrah a new Fall album. Apparently Mark E Smith is going to be reading out the football scores on BBC1's Final Score sometime in November. I am not joking - surely an event not to be missed. "Their finest album yet" it says on the front. That's quite a claim. Straight away the minute it starts up it sounds like nothing else ever. That's the great thing about The Fall you just don't know what you are going to get. The production is thankfully much more chunky this time round with lots of squelchy synths and noisy guitars topped as ever by Mark E Smith's trademark growl. At times his delivery is just downright bizzare and on 'Midnight in Aspen' he drawls over a quite beautiful pastoral guitar piece. Pity though that "Blindness" has been re-recorded from the Narnack sampler version which was downright stunning. On first listen then a valiant effort. CD and limited vinyl on Slogan.

Track Listing

1. Ride Away
2. Pacifying Joint
3. What About Us?
4. Midnight Aspen
5. Assume
6. Midnight Aspen (Reprise)
7. Blindness
8. I Can Hear the Grass Grow
9. Bo Demmick
10. Youwanner
11. Clasp Hands
12. Early Days of Channel Führer
13. Breaking the Rules
14. Trust in Me