buffyleigh
4
I'm vaguely familiar with The Fall & Mark E Smith. I get why they are important, this album is nice but it's not my favourite flavor of post-punk.
The music of The Fall veers wildly between sublime genius and borderline unlistenable, often within the same album, and in the case of the track Paintwork, in the same song. Mark E Smith famously took the master tape back to his hotel room and then accidentally recorded part of an Open University lecture on stars over part of the song. They kept it in, and somehow it all works. This is a pretty good starting point for anyone who is Fall curious.