And nearing the finish line - And entering into the modern era. The Fall step up with Your Future Our Clutter. Great title, terrible cover - the Bury single is better but something of a throwback.
The album is fantastic though and The Fall are maintaining that steady roll they've been on for the last few albums. The album is all bass, twang and electronics. The initial showcase is driven by Mark shouting the title over a loudhailer thingy. Then there's some of that lo-fi stuff, that blends into a clean version of Bury. There's nine tracks, they're all really solid up tempo rockabilly type groovers. It's just a great cohesive whole. I find it difficult to identify single tracks as the whole package is clear and concise.
There's a cover: Funnel of Love, seemingly originally recorded by Wanda Jackson (and then deprived by her in 2003, if youtube is to believed). Her version is pretty slow, The Fall play it hard and fast with a lot of feedback and electronics. It's a huge standout and one of the strongest Fall songs of the past few weeks.
They end with Weather Report 2 - which starts off pretty normal, then ends up in a messy low fi growl. It's a strange world in which we live - at least the Fall are disturbingly consistent.
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