Always different, always the same
OK, so now we’ve got that out the way, well kind of. The new tour ‘ep’ by The Fall is really stretching that definition. Two tracks and a live recording. That’s a single, isn’t it? You don’t even get the live one on the 7″
Anyhoo, to the first new materil since 2008’s Imperial Wax Solvent: Opener Slippy Floor seems to be a paeon to Mark E Smiths recently broken hip. (That did happen, didn’t it? I didn’t just dream it?) It’s a rampagingly cyclical riff with him hollering all over it about being back to 95% fitness nad other stuff that we propbably don’t want to understand. This is labelled as the ‘Mark Mix’ and has the rough-hewn energy of the Peel sessions we all know and love. It is, needless to say, one of the best things we’ve heard this year.
Hot Cake (Part 2) is a glam-tinged bass-driven multi-layered piece-of genius. Samples, rangy guitars, Elena making jungle calls and more ranting at slippy floors. More of the same, but different and wonderful and frightening.
Ah right. I’ve just sussed why the cover features the a Blackburn based junior ice hockey team…