The Fall Album: “Twenty Seven Points”

This collection spans the five years during which the Fall took on pop music. That's not to say that this live collection is party music, far from it. This is a mixture demonstrating that there is probably no genre inaccessible to their talents. The Fall's highly professional delivery turns their work into theatre.The music is charged, loud and venomous but there is also humour, a clever play. There is nothing here that can be substituted by the studio version whether it be the expletive-riddled `Big New Prinz' or the intricately reworked `Middle Class Revolt' (the best version I have heard). If you are going to buy one of the many Fall live albums that have appeared over the last six years then start here. Act three, scene one; the Fall group come onto the stage...