And just one proper release this week. But there's a Peel session, which is largely similar to the album tracks - they're all loud and thunderous. And there's a Mixer, which is one of my favourite tracks from this period and this is a good version.
And then the album proper: Shift Work. Notebooks out Plagiarists. This is a good record but something holds it back for me - there's not a duff song on it but there's not a winner either. Ho Hum. Edinburgh Man is Mark singing proper and being all melancholic again. Book of Lies is straight up adult rockabilly, it sort of works. The War Against Intelligence has their best line: "You think your haircut is distinguished; but it's a blot on the English landscape". This is pretty much the pinnacle of the Fall being a proper band with understandable lyrics and tappable tunes. The Mixer is all bleepy bloopy over violins and is probably the best song on there. Rose is probably about Brix and Sinister Waltz is a weirdo tag on.
Then three remixes of So What About It?. It's on the CD, it's listed in the Bible but not on Discogs. Does this even exist. I don't need three remixes of SWAI anyway.
Onwards and upwards
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