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Reformation Post TLC

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Artist: The Fall
Label: Sanctuary
Category: Music

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Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars

14 reviews
Sales Rank: 11176

Media: Audio CD
Running Time: 61
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4

EAN: 5050749700728
ASIN: B000IHY1E6

Release Date: February 12, 2007
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Tracks:

•	Over Over
•	Reformation
•	Fall Sound
•	White Line Fever
•	Insult
•	My Doctor Never
•	Coaches And Horses
•	The Usher
•	Wright Stuff
•	Scenano
•	Das Boot
•	Bad Stuff
•	Systematic Abuse
•	Outro

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Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars

Same old Fall June 20, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful

As always- another year, another reliably good Fall record. On a par with Fall Heads Roll. Saw them play the final gig at Hammersmith Palais earlier this year (before it was demolished to make way for flats); great live band,- especially Dave Spurr on bass. A multi-layered record which demands repeat listens before it exposes its quality, fully.Excellent.

5 out of 5 stars

Right up there June 11, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

This is quality ,dont let anyone tell you different.From the opener"Over!,Over!",untill the outro this delivers the goods,i cannnot wait to see the new Fall lineup live.I saw them last year at the Opera House in Bournemouth it was the BEST gig i have been to for ages.Fall Heads Roll was a great record ,but "Reformation" is better .This is the record MES was born to make, bass driven mosh~pit excellence .I would have liked to see members of the last line~up on this record,but this is The Fall ,ever changing,always brilliant & the new line~up is even better how does he do it? This record will be in my player for the next month at least ,it is a very important & quality product.I am listening to it now through headphones & i can honestly say it is the best album i have heard all year

5 out of 5 stars

now not then April 2, 2007
1 out of 7 found this review helpful

This album is the best it could be and it couldnt be better.Expectation is the route of all sorrow -
Just buy it and play it loud many times . Dont judge just listen and you will hear

3 out of 5 stars

'always the same, always different...' March 29, 2007
3 out of 6 found this review helpful

The Fall's 2005 album "Fall Heads Roll" garnered some of the best reviews Smithy & Co. had had for a long time (it even got a 5/5 rating from that smug git in the Guardian), but if truth be told it wasn't any more accessible than any other Fall album, despite the press saying otherwise; 'twas a baffling mixture of fantastic pinballing garage rock (almost *raunchy* garage rock) and cranky tuneless nonsense.
"Reformation Post TLC" is equally baffling, but in a different way. Much less guitar-oriented, the latest backing band feature two bassists (rather like cult US Fall acolytes Girls Against Boys, if anyone remembers them), and the tunes are correspondingly bass-driven, with the guitar reduced to telegraphic squiggles somewhere at the back of the mix on lengthy, wirily mesmerising tunes like 'Over! Over!', 'Reformation!' and 'Systematic Abuse'. The album standout, 'Insult Song', could almost be a long-lost Primus song from the early '90s, such is its wriggling, throbbing, bass-centredness (I should point out that the trick of verbally abusing your own bandmates has been done before, on the Revolting Cocks' 'Linger Ficken Good'). The increasingly deranged Smith has adopted a truly disquieting snot-rattling growl on some of the stuff here; if the songs are less musically aggressive than on the predecessor album, they're certainly made up for vocally.
Contrary to some, I really like the 10-minute art-jerk-off 'Das Boot', it reminds me of something from last year's Wizardzz album (the fellas from Lightning Bolt's side band, not the '70s glam rockers).
There's some chaff here, though, especially the warbly cover of 'White Lightning', which sounds like a bunch of drunk squaddies commandeering the karaoke all night despite the landlord's attempts to dissuade them. And the aforementioned 'Systematic Abuse' goes on WAY too long; it seems longer than the (actually longer) 'Das Boot'. But the cool thing about Fall albums, as we all know, is that when you think initially that they're only worth a three-star rating, you only have to listen a few more times and realise they're almost certainly worth a four. Therefore the above rating is merely provisional...

5 out of 5 stars

This is Fall for those who like the Fall March 9, 2007
7 out of 8 found this review helpful

Admittedly this is not the Fall album to act as an introduction to the canon. For that role I would suggest 'The Wonderful and Frightening World of...'. But nonetheless, for those lucky enough to have been steeped in the music of Mark E Smith, I would say that here, yet again, is the sound of someone who appears to be launching his music career, eager to please and brimming with the quirkiness which is vital to rock music. Others, jaded and grown contemptuous with fame, may grow stale; but Mark E Smith obviously still loves his art. This is quality material, produced by an artist at the height of his mischievous powers.