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- Summary: Continuing with the same lineup as 2008's "Imperial Wax Solvent," the British rock band led by Mark E. Smith releases its 28th studio album on new label Domino records.
- Record Label: Domino
- Genre(s): Rock
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Top Track
| Funnel of Love | |
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| Well, I'm going down, down, down My mind is a wreck My head is spinning around and around In the funnel of love It's such a crazy, crazy, crazy... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 18 out of 21
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Mixed: 3 out of 21
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The band is in one of its ever-cyclical upswings, bolstered by what Smith has referred to as "the best lineup I've ever had"-and while a characteristically ungrateful slight against all the great Fall permutations he's sacked, it's also a fair appraisal of this season's squad.
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Evoking the mystery and quirky inventiveness of Smith's earliest work, this latest offering possesses a sense of coherence and all-engrossing appeal that makes good on the renewed promise.
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Still vital at age 53, he's delivered another cantankerously great Fall album in Your Future, Our Clutter, a bristling suite of relatively spacious, always unpredictable songs clammy with mutant distortions that are never less than electrified.
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Mark E. Smith successfully negotiates that difficult 28th album.
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This latest record also goes some way to proving that, while he may be an old dog with a pickled onion for a head, Mark E. Smith and The Fall are still capable of learning the odd new trick.
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The bilious frontman has aged like a cheap wine: embittered, but with enough kick left to make for a good time.
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If the ranting occasionally suggests generic provocation for its own sake, Smith's fury, amplified by the pounding grooves, is oddly uplifting--in moderate doses.
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