The Fall - Your Future Our Clutter

If, for the sake of your own musical sanity, you've been cherry-picking the finest of The Fall’s twenty-eight album output so far, then Your Future Our Clutter is unlikely to ride high on your wish list. Not that it’s a bad record by any standards, that would be very un-Fall like behaviour, but nor is it a recurrent high-watermark a la The Infotainment Scan or The Marshall Suite (though Fall history dictates such a return is due). Instead, Mark E. Smith’s amorphous bunch mine their seemingly endless resource of dirty garage bass riffs, finding that groove and locking on before burning the mother out. There are a couple of moments when something on a higher plane is reached (Mexico Wax Solvent, Slippy Floor) and for Fall completionists, that will more than suffice. For the rest of us, it’s just another Fall album and – yeah – it’s pretty decent. [Darren Carle]