The Fall
Heads Roll
Narnack Records
2005
www.narnackrecords.com
The Kurt Weill Fall? Not too surprising. The sensitive, twee Fall? Hmmm. Also contains some more of the groovy rockin' Fall of recent days (a good thing, IMHO) and a good dose of old-school Fall of the repetitive and rockabilly-ish sorts -- but recorded clearly. It all sounds so nice now, accomodating, neutered. I kind of miss the weird dissonances and strange notions of tonality from older Fall. Maybe in another 20 releases M.E.S. will come back around to that sort of thing. I used to hate how other bands, like Pavement, seemed to rip off The Fall, but for now it just seems like The Fall are doing it too.
-Mark Gee