The Fall - Perverted By Language LP Other Birthday Blues almost sounds like

Birthday Blues almost sounds like a Pentangle LP missing John Renbourn and Jacqui McShee

these recordings set bright analogue melodies against half-whispered vocals and expand Bender's electronic cryptography thru a series of lone signifiers: "Station

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all the shuffling stripes cascading into each other

The Fall - Perverted By Language LP Other Birthday Blues almost sounds likeThe Fall returned to Rough Trade in 1983 to release a pair of singles ("The Man Whose Head Expanded" and "Kicker Conspiracy") and Perverted By Language, their sixth proper studio album. Perverted By Language hints at the band's shift towards a distinctly pop approach, one that they would perfect via their Beggars Banquet output that immediately followed. Yet again, the force and panic of their initial Rough Trade recordings remains the foundation for