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For their first album since October 2005's Fall Heads Roll, this new Fall swing and sway, teeter but never totter over. Reformation Post TLC reconfirms the group's position as perennial outsiders, with leader Mark E. Smith's curmudgeonly mirror refracting the light of the current popular mores, underlining their futility and transience. 'Celebrity' and past-it pop groups are but two of his targets.
Remarkable at their concerts over the past year, 'Reformation' reaffirms Smith's lifelong allegiance to the power of repetition. This attack upon pound-seeking acts on the reunion trail effortlessly becomes this album's showstopper. By its fifth minute, it has smelted down just to a throb in your head. By the time it collapses 120 seconds later you realise that although there may not be new worlds for Smith to conquer, he can at least surmount the same one over and over again so definitively.
'Fall Sound' continues this attack with a composite of the power of the gothic period Fall, 85-86, but this is no Bournemouth re-runner. 'Scenario' is wistful and reflective, building on an obscure old country 'n' irish tune, 'Pal Of My Cradle Days'. Of course, it wouldn't be a Fall album without a rambling, rumbling excursion into the avant garde and this here comes in the shape of 'Das Boat' (there's possibly even a Syd Barrett tribute buried in here).
Although the album opens with Smith singing 'I think it's over now' and this is the first Fall album where he actually sounds old, there is still the promise of so much more to come. Reformation Post TLC is another example of why The Fall are the last true perpetrators of the post-punk spirit. It is only you that have been elsewhere. --Daryl Easlea
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THE FALL Reformation Post TLC (2007 UK 14-track CD album - One of the greatest punk and post punk bands of all time return to their very best and sees Mark E Smith vocals sneer over garage rock guitar and a pummelling rhythm section)
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Same old Fall,
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This review is from: Reformation Post TLC (Audio CD)
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.
13 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
I think it's over now, I think it's beginning,
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This review is from: Reformation Post TLC (Audio CD)
Perhaps taking the title of 2005's excellent Fall Heads Roll literally, Mark E Smith made the entirely expected move of firing the entire band - except wife and keyboardist, Elena Poulou - before embarking on their 28th year of recording.
Members of Los Angeles bands Darker My Love and The Hill form the latest iteration of The Fall and the opening track, Over! Over!'s, mantra of "I think it's over now, I think it's ending. I think it's over now, I think it's beginning" could easily be a slogan for the band's revolving door recruitment policy. Even for Smith, Reformation Post TLC is a uniquely bilious album. A version of Merle Haggard's White Line Fever recalls the kind of mangled country and western that Smith clearly finds so fascinating, while Insult Song - where Smith adopts a redneck accent to spin a silly tale about Captain Beefhart - veers between the inspired and the baffling. The Wright Stuff allows Smith to offer his take on I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here, while Das Boat's nine minutes of electronic commotion and muttering demonstrate the knotty, cantankerous and perplexing side of Smith's persona. Duly disorientating and typically slanted, Reformation Post TLC is the equal of anything in The Fall's gargantuan canon.
9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
This is Fall for those who like the Fall,
By Wilf Trauma Spinach (Sheffield, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Reformation Post TLC (Audio CD)
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.
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