Name: The Fontana Years
Brand: The Fall

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

5742692

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2017-08-25

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Universal

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

00602557426922

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Total Cap

6 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

The Fall

Genre GB

New Wave / Post Punk

Label GB

A 6CD collection of The Fall recordings under the Fontana label. Extricate is the 12th album by post-punk band The Fall. It was made immediately after bandleader Mark E. Smith divorced guitarist Brix Smith, she was replaced by founding former member Martin Bramah, who had previously left the group in 1979. Lead-off single Telephone Thing could have been seen as a nod to the Manchester scene of the time its origins were in Smith's previous collaboration with Coldcut, the album's best known track was one of the least typical of the group's catalogue: Bill Is Dead, a slow-paced tender love song which topped John Peel's Festive Fifty that year, Shift-Work the 1991 offering by The Fall, they started working on the album in 1990 while still touring in support of Extricate. Shiftwork marked, in the opinion of critic Ted Mills, a change in direction for the group, as "repetitious grooves became interspersed with pop song structures." Code: Selfish is the bands 14th album which entered the chart at number 21. It is characterised by its harsher sound, in relation to the previous year's Shift-Work, and is influenced by techno music. Despite this, the album also has some notably mellow moments with Time Enough at Last and Gentlemen's Agreement being at odds with the overall sound of the album. Largely recorded in a converted church in Glasgow, Code: Selfish features the group's only self-penned Top 40 single Free Range. This box set combines the three albums the band recorded for Universal with the Fontana label, the package also contains all the bonus discs that were included in the 2007 editions. Mojo’s Daryl Easlea has re-written the notes for the set which comes in a slip case, and the band will release a new album this year.

The Fontana Years

Music GB