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Single Reviews
Single Review: The Fall – Bury (Domino)
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 12 April 2010
There’s a lot of bluster touted over any and every band’s ‘difficult’ second album. However, when you get to a band’s 28th album, difficulty becomes somewhat irrelevant. Especially in the case of The Fall.
However, this single proves that Mark E Smith has more than simply ‘still got it’. For all its bubbling, tin-can-recorded intros, bizarre references and extra-terrestrial fuzz, ‘Bury’ is as much a straight up pop song as a rambling exercise in surrealism. The wilful weirdness remains (“one day a Spanish king with a council of bad knaves tried to come to Bury”, Smith drawls, with perplexing conviction); yet a creaking, insistent rhythm section drives the song into a superbly catchy melody.
With ‘Bury’, Smith deadpans his way extra-syllabically over any doubts we may have had, proving that first, third, or 28th album, he remains the undisputed luminary of pop eccentricity. EG
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