Reformation-Post T.L.C.
Fall
Producer: M. E. Smith, Tim Gracielands
Narnack Records, 2007
1 CD
Catalogue #: NCK7044
EAN: 0825807704421
UPC: 825807704421
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Enhanced content features videos for:
1. My Door
2. Scenario
3. Hungry Freaks Daddy
4. Mountain Energei
5. Blindness
The Fall: Mark E. Smith (vocals); Tim Presley (guitar); Eleni Poulou (keyboards); Rob Barbato, Dave Spur (bass instrument); Orpheo McCord (drums).
Additional personnel: Peter Greenway, Gary (guitar); St. Eitel (unknown instrument).
Released in early 2007, REFORMATION POST T.L.C. marks the Fall's third chapter in its revitalized run on the Narnack label. Even more notably, it signals yet another incarnation of the long-running British post-punk act, with the album recorded shortly after much of the band abruptly abandoned notoriously difficult frontman/founder Mark E. Smith and his wife, keyboardist/vocalist Eleni Poulou, while on tour in the United States. Although the songs on T.L.C., performed with an impromptu cadre of American musicians, don't quite carry the heft or precision of those on preceding albums, their lo-fi, off-the-cuff quality is charming in its own way, with the lumbering "Reformation" (a clear cousin of FALL HEADS ROLL's fierce "Blindness") and the hard-charging "Fall Sound," revealing that, thankfully, the ever-ranting Smith shows no signs of slowing down or shutting up.
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Fall
A crucial inspiration to several generations of bands, the Fall virtually defined the late-1970s UK post-punk sound. Fall vocalist Mark E. Smith's sung/spoken rants may owe more to beat poetry than rock & roll, but his sociopolitical iconoclasm and the band's angular, cutting riffs and rhythms placed them squarely at the forefront of Britain's first major post-Pistols musical movement. In the '80s, their rough, guitar-based sounded expanded with the introduction of keyboards and more sophisticated production (largely due to the arrival of Smith's wife Brix as a band member), and personnel came and went, but Smith kept his ragtag rock army soldiering on all the way into the 21st century.
