With the twin-babe presence of Brix and keyboardist Marcia Schofield adding sex appeal, The Fall crafted one of the least challenging records of their career.
The cluttered field of stars has as much depth as an electron: Combining blindly, then breaking off again for another go ’round on the whirligig of romance.
Kurious is a perfect snapshot of a band, a country and a planet teetering on total collapse and Smith channels the tension into a handful of brilliant songs.
While this has only one new song and a kinda beefier, rawer-sounding version of the hidden track on Everything Sucks, it’s got Milo on it. Ergo, it rocks!
Bone saws and a shortwave radio stuck between a dead frequency and the live broadcast of a roto-tiller in a scrap-metal landfill competes for your attention.