Released 4/26/10
Working across four decades, The Fall have become a venerated musical institution. Remaining musically far left of centre as possible whilst simultaneously enjoying the luxury of wide-scale critical adulation, the band have released over 27 studio albums, and double that in collections. In leader and only band constant Mark Edward Smith ruling the group with his particular R.O.D. of iron, the band have lost none of their sneering charm and continue to both delight and repel in equal measure. A favourite of the late, great John Peel (The Fall recorded more BBC Radio 1 Sessions than any other band), the collective have recently been enjoying something of a renaissance due to recent strong album deliveries with Fall Heads Roll and Post Reformational TLC which have drawn approval from fans and reawakened, not only the wider broadsheet critics but also a hackneyed music press to the point where MOJO saw fit to honour the band with an award for The Peel Sessions box set collection back in 2005. Of course, this is exactly the sort of thing that keeps Mark E. Smith in a state of seething, caustic intolerance, and for that, we are forever thankful. About The Album: First released in March 1982, Hex Enduction Hour is The Fall's fourth studio album and is regarded as the 'classic' in their catalogue. With Smith's sustained rail against culture as Britain went from being a producer to a consumer, Hex... is the point where The Fall mapped-out a whole new territory. A tour-de-force of dense, knotty, broken, brazen, dark, bleak and skewiff alt. rock, it's no surprise that the track 'Hip Priest' was used during the climax to the film, The Silence Of The Lambs. In short, Hex... is when it got really good.
Disc 1: The Classical Jawbone + The Air-Rifle Hip Priest Fortress / Deer Park Mere Pseud Mag. Ed Winter (Hostel-Maxi) Winter 2 Just Step S'ways Who Makes The Nazis? Iceland And This Day