The Fall – Extricate (Vinyl) Format:Vinyl LP it thankfully hasn’t taken the

it thankfully hasn’t taken the same amount of time for the next instalment to arrive

Long Gone Lonesome Blues

Tweedy's lyrics deal forthrightly with romantic separation and reconciliation

drawing on collaboration to push the four-piece out of their comfort zone

sampled vocals

The Fall – Extricate (Vinyl) Format:Vinyl LP it thankfully hasn’t taken theExtricate, the first post Brix Smith album, is marked by a far more melodic approach than your usual Fall joint. It's also loaded up with keyboards, nods to techno, and, in an unexpected but welcome twist, Kenny Brady's textural violin playing. "Sing! Harpy" is as caustic and deadpan as anything in the Fall canon, riding a spare, brutal groove as Brady's scraping strings fills in the gaps. It seems as though his divorce is fresh on Smith's mind. "You