A brighter than usual start to the working week - there's a new Fall LP out today. Picked it up in Selectadisc and am on my second trot through it on headphones, safely out of the way of the Helster, who is not a fan...
On the strength of the first couple of listens, it's not as good as 'Fall Heads Roll' or 'The Real New Fall LP' (MES is getting very self-referential in his old age - one of the tracks on this album is called 'Fall Sound'), but it still rocks in the right places.
It's too bloody long though - there's 10 minutes of drivel called Das Boat which must have taken as long to write as it did to record, and one or two other inconsequential tunes which add little to the overall effect, but I guess that's what Fall LPs are supposed to be like...
It's tempting to believe the rumour on the excellent Fall fansite that the 'TLC' in the album title stands for 'treacherous lying cunts', in reference to MES's erstwhile guitarist/bassist/drummer, who quit on him mid-tour in the US last year, apparently tiring of his lager and sulphate shenanigans and habitual bad behaviour, including assaulting a member of the support act with a banana -the 'systematic abuse' described on the closing track, perhaps...
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