![]() Pascal Bertin, reviewing the album for Les Inrockuptibles, stated that band had "recycled its own musical formula but manages once again to regenerate it". Tiny Mix Tapes gave it 4 out of 5, describing "Blindness" as "an absolute classic". Scott Kara, for the New Zealand Herald, gave it three stars, viewing it as the Fall "back to their raw, punchy and rocky best". PopMatters' Josh Berquist gave it an 8/10 rating, stating " Fall Heads Roll resounds with the same kind of incongruous charm that ingratiated newcomers with The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall or The Unutterable". Joe Tangari, for Pitchfork, gave it 7.8 out of 10, calling it "a grab-bag of a Fall album with brilliant highs and scattered lows". Alexis Petridis, reviewing the album for The Guardian, gave it a 5-star review, describing it as "of head-turning quality" and stating the "Youwanner" riff "could strip paint". ![]() The album received generally positive reviews, with a score of 80 at Metacritic. #Fall fall fall fall professionalCritical reception Professional ratings Aggregate scores It was the last album with this lineup of the band to be released A later album was largely completed but left unreleased when Smith parted company with most of the band members. "Blindness" was used in a 2007 US television ad campaign for the Mitsubishi Outlander. The US double LP edition of the album contains a different version of the track "Blindness". In the US, the album was their second release with Narnack Records. The UK version was released on CD and as limited vinyl pressing of 1,000, and was preceded by a single release of "I Can Hear the Grass Grow". Īlthough the Sanctuary group had reissued several earlier Fall albums and their Peel Sessions box set (on their Castle Communications imprint), this was the first album of new Fall material to be released by them, on this occasion appearing on their Slogan label. The album's closing track, "Trust in Me", features guest lead vocals from Kenny Cummings of the band Shelby, who had first met Smith and Elena Poulou at the Gigantic offices earlier on the day it was recorded, with additional vocal contributions from Phil Schuster of Shelby, and recording engineers Billy Pavone and Simon "Ding" Archer. "Breaking the Rules" evolved from the band's attempts to record " Walk Like a Man", with lyrics from a song by Bec Walker, an aspiring singer who had been on work experience at Gracieland Studios at the time the album was recorded. The album includes a cover version of the Move's " I Can Hear the Grass Grow", and "What About Us?", a song written from the point of view of an East German immigrant who berates Harold Shipman for giving morphine to old ladies instead of him. Smith mentioned Heads Are Rolling and If You Assume as two possible titles. ![]() In a March 2005 interview with Kitchen Sink magazine prior to the album's release, singer Mark E. The album was recorded at Lisa Stansfield's Gracieland Studios in Rochdale, UK and at Gigantic Studios in New York City. (of rain, snow, etc.Background, recording, and release."fall into a trap" "She fell ill" "They fell out of favour" "Fall in love" "fall asleep" "fall prey to an imposter" "fall into a strange way of thinking" "she fell to pieces after she lost her work" Pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind. ![]() "The barometer is falling" "The curtain fell on the diva" "Her hand went up and then fell again" ![]()
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