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Although The Fall had made their mark with albums such as "Dragnet" and "Grotesque", it was with "Hex Enduction Hour" that they really produced their first monumental classic album. This was the start of a highly creative period for Mark E. Smith and cohorts which would peak with "This Nations Saving Grace". "Hex Enduction Hour" has some truly classic Fall moments and shows a definite maturity in the writing. The album starts off with the storming "The Classical", the clattering of the dual drums of Paul Hanley and Karl Burns rattling along at a phenomenal pace. This is quintessential Fall withmore… Smith ranting in his own highly inimitable style. The basswork by Steve Hanley is solid and propulsive with a brilliant intuitive solo at the end of the piece. "Hip Priest" is another classic track, a tight tension in its slow, methodical build up. This piece was unforgettably used to stunning effect at the climax of "The Silence of the Lambs". The huge workouts on tracks such as "Iceland" clearly demonstrate the influence of Can with the use of repetition to produce an ever evolving, hypnotic beat. The thing about The Fall is that on the surface they sound almost amateurish in the way they play. But actually they are very sophisticated in what they do, in the way they use their instruments, tape samples, lyrical ideas right through to the sleeve art. They are always experimenting with new sounds and ideas. No one could sound like The Fall and no one does. As John Peel so accurately put it, "they're always different, but always the same". On "Hex Enduction Hour" the use of different types of percussion for instance is quite unusual and just adds the right kind of embellishments needed. Smith always surrounded himself with the "right" musicians, especially so here. There was a brilliant empathy going on which was almost telepathic in the way they would feed off each other musically. I have only heard this type of symbiosis in a few bands such as the aforementioned Can, who Mark E. Smith is a big fan of. "Hex Enduction Hour" still sounds fresh, invigorating and inventive even today. The Fall could make a right royal racket and here is one of the best examples.

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Fall - Hex Enduction Hour (2005) Retail CD

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