No reason!
The Fall and The Wedding Present are my two favourite groups. They will appear more frequently than most in this feature. Where The Wedding Present are consistently excellent, The Fall swing between the exceptional and the borderline unlistenable.
This thirteen and a half minute epic from the excellent 2008 album Imperial Wax Solvent is a case in point. The first four minutes are extraordinary. The group hammer out a furious rhythm that drives Mark E. Smith's angry diatribe at Virgin Trains, record producer Steve Albini and hotel towel recycling among other things. It's an aural version of a series of complaint letters being delivered by battering ram.
Then there's 90 seconds of banjo before the thread is picked up again, slower this time with a grubbier guitar sound. Another interlude, of bass, cymbals and electronic noises this, before the last four minutes change tack again and Smith turns his attention to 'inferior product' men and 'complimentary catering'.
It's not all brilliant but you won't hear anything else like it.
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