The Fall – Fall Heads Roll
In this day and age when almost every long-since-separated punk outfit has decided to cash in on a reunion tour, The Fall continue their perpetual run producing a sound they helped pioneer almost thirty years ago…authentic dance-punk.
Inspiring many indie-rock bands from the early 90’s through today, The Fall return with a new album and a new lesson in rock n roll. Fall Heads Roll is the latest studio full-length and second for Narnack following 2004’s The Real New Fall LP, an album which was dubbed by the masses as the best of The Fall’s work in the last ten years. Fall Heads Roll features fourteen tracks of intoxicating Fall splendor which pick up precisely where the last album left off while re-exploring classic Fall territory. Recorded in both New York City and Manchester, England during the Winter of 2005, this album promises to captivate early and brand new Fall fans alike. Some tracks are enchantingly dreary (Early Days of Channel Fuhrer), others laced-up with monumental garage-pop hooks effective enough to candy-coat a bruised liver specifically, I Can Hear the Grass Grow, the album’s first single, released September 6th, 2005.
Emerging from working-class Manchester, The Fall formed in 1976 after vocalist and incomparably acid-tongued lyricist Mark E. Smith decided he wanted a more personal vessel for his words, ideas and obsessions with literature. He found some like-minded compatriots and the first full-length, Live at the Witch Trials, soon followed. Many albums and many more band member changes later, Mark E. Smith has lead The Fall in becoming what many critics consider to be the most prolific band of the British Punk movement. With his philosophical word play, knowledge of appealing song structure and bitterly controversial personality, Mark E. Smith has managed to front a band with not only a cult following, but an impressive record of success on both the UK and US charts.
To support the release of Fall Heads Roll, the band will be heading out on an extensive UK tour this October with North American dates soon to follow.
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