The Fall’s ‘Hex Enduction Hour’ Casts Long Shadows 40 Years On
Easily among the Fall’s top two LPs and one of the finest slabs of controlled noise of the post-punk era, Hex Enduction Hour continues to kick up new dust 40 years on.
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The Fall’s ‘The Frenz Experiment’ Gets an Expanded Edition
A more complete picture of the band's period output does wonders for the Fall's The Frenz Experiment.
The Fall Go Transatlantic with ‘Reformation! Post-TLC’
The Fall's Reformation! Post-TLC, originally released in 2007, teams Mark E. Smith with an almost all-American band, who he subsequently fired after a few months, leaving just one record and a few questions behind.
The 50 Best Post-Punk Albums Ever: Part 4, James Chance to the Pop Group
This week we are celebrating the best post-punk albums of all-time and today we have part four with Talking Heads, the Fall, Devo and more.
The 50 Best Post-Punk Albums Ever: Part 2, The B-52’s to Magazine
This week we are celebrating the best post-punk albums of all-time and today we have part two with the Cure, Mission of Burma, the B-52's and more.
The Moving Pixels Podcast Becomes Sentient, Discusses ‘The Fall Part 2: Unbound’
This week we discuss self-consciousness, self-identification, and awful puzzle design in The Fall: Part 2 - Unbound.
The Fall: Singles 1978 – 2016 (album review)
Does the world really need another Fall anthology? Yes, absolutely, and this is it.
The Fall: A Frustrating Season Still Highlights Gillian Anderson’s Brilliant Character Work
Season three of The Fall may not have lived up to the previous two seasons, but it remains a largely absorbing series.
Motorways, Bank Robbers, and Other Delights: A Conversation with Martin Bramah of Blue Orchids
John Peel and Nico loved his band and Mark E. Smith fired him. Martin Bramah marched through history with a band he can never seem to escape. After decades of trying not to, he's finally learned to embrace life in Blue Orchids.
Blue Orchids: Awefull / The Once and Future Thing
Blue Orchids comes roaring back with new songs and a collection of early '80s Rough Trade sides.
The Fall: Wise Ol’ Man
The Fall have summoned another EP that will please the faithful while baffling everyone else.