Thursday, 19 April 2012

RTSBBK#1: The Fall - Two Librans 
Perhaps a funny choice on the face of it, given that with their dogged longevity and voluminous back catalogue, The Fall are pretty well-known, even outside of indie circles. However, this sheer volume of recorded material, (29 studio albums, and a seemingly endless supply of live material and session recordings), going back to 1976, paradoxically means that even stand-out tracks on stand-out albums can be lost or forgotten in this plethora of releases - a kind of "release-fatigue" of sorts. This track comes from the album The Unutterable, released in 2000, not an album from the Fall’s back catalogue which receives a huge amount of attention. That’s a mistake. The song itself is a belter, and although the lyrics are too cryptic for me to understand, (references to Oprah Winfrey and bee-keeping just add to the mystery of it), frankly, the band have never sounded better.

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