The Fall: Ersatz GB – review

(Cherry Red)Seminal is a dangerous term for band because, fundamentally, it ends up meaning your whole shtick is so regulated and predictable you might as well be dead. So it is with the Fall, whose 317th studio album, or whatever it is, has absolutely no chance of reaching beyond the people who dutifully queued up for their 316th album: everyone already knows what to expect and, largely, they'd be right. Mask Search and Cosmos 7 are both rumbling rockabilly roustabouts with Mark E Smith's grues...

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