LISTEN TO IT #10: YR BLOOD IS WORTHLESS
Jun. 24th, 2010 04:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogI’ve confessed before that I’m a recent convert to The Fall, one of those bands I’ve always been aware of but never really had an opportunity to investigate their music until the last few years. And I’m digging what I’ve heard so far.
Yes, I know, with 27 albums to their credit and probably almost as many line-ups, they can’t all be zingers. Luckily, the new album – their 28th, Your Future Our Clutter – isn’t the one that will disappoint me.
Like their previous album, it’s full of enough surprises to keep things unpredictable (including a Wanda Jackson cover, even), and you can’t really ask for a more entertaining frontman in 2010 than Mark E Smith. Sure, he sounds like yr cranky drunk uncle lecturing the TV, but he also sounds like he’s having a ball, and it’s catching.
Besides, in a world where Ke$ha gets to make records for money, people like Smith may be the only antidote.
Okay, not just him. But listen.
A top contender for Album of the Year.
You will suffer all the seasons of the sides of municipal buildings,
This is dF
Yes, I know, with 27 albums to their credit and probably almost as many line-ups, they can’t all be zingers. Luckily, the new album – their 28th, Your Future Our Clutter – isn’t the one that will disappoint me.
Like their previous album, it’s full of enough surprises to keep things unpredictable (including a Wanda Jackson cover, even), and you can’t really ask for a more entertaining frontman in 2010 than Mark E Smith. Sure, he sounds like yr cranky drunk uncle lecturing the TV, but he also sounds like he’s having a ball, and it’s catching.
Besides, in a world where Ke$ha gets to make records for money, people like Smith may be the only antidote.
Okay, not just him. But listen.
A top contender for Album of the Year.
You will suffer all the seasons of the sides of municipal buildings,
This is dF
