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The Fall: Perverted by Language (1983)
Any number of the many Fall albums will clear a room or provoke an argument with family or friends, but this early album by one of John Peel’s favourite bands actually has a fair bit of “proper” musicianship going for it which adds coherence to Mark E. Smith’s acerbic and largely impenetrable poetry/observations. And singer Brix Smith’s inspired amateurism on Hotel Blöedel leavens the whole mix of minimalism, post-punk repetition and bent pop. The Fall at what passes as their most accessible? Maybe.
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