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- Summary: The latest album from the British group is with yet another different lineup from 2007's "Reformation Post TLC."
- Record Label: Castle
- Genre(s): Rock
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The WireThrow in an evocative, anthemically chanted lyrical snapshot, some cryptic tales and a blues rock cover and almost every successful Fall trick familiar from the last two decades is also deployed. All of which amounts to a vital late period masterpice. [June 2008, p.47]
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A superb new Fall album.
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They may have been marking time slightly of late, but let your fears they'd never rise again be dispersed; this is the best Fall album of the century bar none.
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Some 50-odd musicians and several hundred songs down the line, the Fall's (we think) 27th album is one of their most adventurous and finest.
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For all the grunting and studio manipulation (the way the levels shift around, it's like there's a cat loose on the mixing board), this is as playful as the Fall has ever been, with long stretches of taking the piss.
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Imperial Wax Solvent is another remarkable batch of brilliantly deranged tales no whiskey-breathed war veteran across the bar could trump.
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Q MagazineThere are missteps, but consistency was never their selling point. [June 2008, p.138]
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TonyM.Aug 11, 2008Extremely surprised as a B.O.F. I believed "The Fall" had peaked along time ago but this is the best in a decade.
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