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<\/a><\/p>\n\u2018Message for yer! Message for yer!\u2019<\/p>\n
Hot on the heels of an astonishing 30th studio album. The ever-prolific Mark E Smith and his latest incarnation of the \u2018The Fall\u2019 have released \u2018The Remainderer\u2019 a 6 track EP on 10\u2019 vinyl to add to their mightily impressive back catalogue. According to their label Cherry Red Records the new EP is serving as something of a \u2018bridging point\u2019 between their last album \u2018Re-mit\u2019 and a 31st studio album, which is due to be released in 2014. In the meantime \u2018Fall\u2019 devotees who can\u2019t get enough of the ever confrontational and uncompromising Mark E Smith, and the myriad of musicians who have made the \u2018Fall\u2019 one of the most enigmatic bands in Britain will have their appetites sated with 6 brand spanking new songs.<\/p>\n
One thing you can always rely on with \u2018The Fall\u2019 is that they will never serve music to their fans on a plate. To the casual listener \u2018The Fall\u2019s\u2019 music can seem impenetrable, and Mark E Smith\u2019s lyrics can seem illogical and oblique as Smith has clearly never cared for the conventional and some might argue limited song structure of verse, chorus, and verse.<\/p>\n
\u2018The Fall\u2019 has never really made commercial music and do not conform to any musical stereotypes, which makes them enduringly fascinating. When listening to \u2018The Fall\u2019 the music often seems cacophonous, unfocused and at times ready to fall apart. However, despite Mark E Smith\u2019s policy of hiring self-taught or non-musicians, their music is deceptively accomplished. Despite all the line up changes \u2018The Fall\u2019 have still maintained their rather ragged and jumbled sound, and this must have something to do with the musical ideology and policy of Mark E Smith.<\/p>\n
\u2018The Remainderer\u2019 has that familiar and recognizable sound that only \u2018The Fall\u2019 can pull off. The Snarling, wayward vocals, distorted jagged guitars, prominent bass and an often menacing drum sound. The EP kicks off with the title track and it is Mark E Smith\u2019s somewhat inaudible and growling vocals that dominate this track. He sounds almost inebriated and there are 2 sets of vocals recorded, which intertwine with each other to stunningly cacophonous effect. \u2018Amorator! Has a chugging and almost \u2018Rock a Billy\u2019 like drum sound, and Mark E Smith\u2019s slurring almost speech like vocals seem out of kilter to the track itself, and observational lyrics like \u2018never forget, your brain is a bubble of water\u2019 left my own brain slightly muddled to say the least.<\/p>\n
The EP steps up a gear with \u2018Mister Rode, which begins with a menacing repetitive guitar solo that slowly gets louder, before the almost sloppy drums kick in and then we find Mark E Smith\u2019s vocals back on form as he repeats the line \u2018I gotta name, I gotta say\u2019. This song sounds like it could grind to a halt at any minute, and it kept me riveted for the whole 6 minutes and 39 seconds to see if it did just that. \u2018Rememberance R\u2019 is another lengthy track that sees Mark E Smith gargling the opening few sentences, before reverting back to his inebriated speech like vocals, and the song takes a bizarre turn towards the end with a spoken word interlude by the engineer Simon Archer who vents his anger and disappointment at bands that reform. Don\u2019t we all.<\/p>\n
\u2018Say Mama-Race With The Devil\u2019 is an enjoyable romp through 2 brilliant Gene Vincent tracks, and \u2018The Fall\u2019 combine these classic 1950s \u2018Rock n Roll\u2019 tracks into a 3 minute medley of \u2018Psychobilly\u2019 Bliss. \u2018Touchy Pad\u2019 brings this EP to a somewhat confusing end as Mark E Smith duets with his wife and band mate Eleni Poulou. She almost screams in an out of tune fashion \u2018Where\u2019s My Time Machine\u2019 while Smith slurs oddball lyrics about \u2018Asians With Weak Bones\u2019 and then spits \u2018Your Lousy Country Stinks Anyway\u2019.<\/p>\n
This is an EP that was not \u2018made with the highest British attention to the wrong detail\u2019, and it probably will not win any new converts as the latter day \u2018Fall\u2019 are only preaching to the converted. However, Mark E Smith remains as enigmatic and idiosyncratic as ever, and trying to sum up this EP or any of \u2018The Fall\u2019s output in a neat sentence is difficult, but John Peel\u2019s pithy \u2018They are always different; they are always the same\u2019 is about as good as it gets. BUY HERE!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hot on the heels of an astonishing 30th studio album. The ever-prolific Mark E Smith and his latest incarnation of the \u2018The Fall\u2019 have released \u2018The Remainderer\u2019 a 6 track EP on 10\u2019 vinyl to add to their mightily impressive back catalogue. According to their label Cherry Red Records the new EP is serving as something of a \u2018bridging point\u2019 between their last album \u2018Re-mit\u2019 and a 31st studio album, which is due to be released in 2014. In the meantime \u2018Fall\u2019 devotees who can\u2019t get enough of the ever confrontational and uncompromising Mark E Smith, and the myriad of musicians who have made the \u2018Fall\u2019 one of the most enigmatic bands in Britain will have their appetites sated with 6 brand spanking new songs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":909,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,128,88,71,92,74],"tags":[750,121,792,884,883],"series":[],"class_list":["post-5648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genres","category-hot-plugs","category-indie","category-music","category-post-punk","category-reviews","tag-cherry-red-records","tag-eyeplug","tag-longjohn","tag-mark-e-smith","tag-the-fall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5648"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5654,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5648\/revisions\/5654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5648"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=5648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}