INDIE
INDIE
THE FALL
THE FALL
The Complete Peel Sessions (Sanctuary) With 98 tracks spread across six discs, listening to this mammoth set makes you feel like a member of Tony Robinson's Time Team, inserting a probe into the soil to extract the layers of ages past. There are now more Fall compilations and collections out there than Mark E. Smith himself can keep track of, but if you buy only one, make it this one. In among the classics are some real curios — Hark the Herald Angels Sing, anyone? — while devotees will find as much of interest in the band's low point of 1998's two sessions as in the resurgent 2004 appearance. All that's missing here is the lugubrious voice of John Peel expressing his love of the band, but tributes to the power of his show don't come much better than this. < * ■*.- •»• NIGEL KENDALL
The Complete Peel Sessions (Sanctuary) With 98 tracks spread across six discs, listening to this mammoth set makes you feel like a member of Tony Robinson's Time Team, inserting a probe into the soil to extract the layers of ages past. There are now more Fall compilations and collections out there than Mark E. Smith himself can keep track of, but if you buy only one, make it this one. In among the classics are some real curios — Hark the Herald Angels Sing, anyone? — while devotees will find as much of interest in the band's low point of 1998's two sessions as in the resurgent 2004 appearance. All that's missing here is the lugubrious voice of John Peel expressing his love of the band, but tributes to the power of his show don't come much better than this. < * ■*.- •»• NIGEL KENDALL
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