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The 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 bands 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 much of the album. A transitional recording in the absolute best sense, Perverted By Language is The Fall both as they were and as they would become.
The emergence of Brix Smith is often cited as the impetus for The Falls move toward outward pop, and she first makes her first appearance with the band on Perverted By Language. Nowhere is her presence felt more than on Hotel Bledel, where she handles lead vocal duties alongside Mark E. Smith whose mangled violin accompaniment roots the songs cold romanticism in his unmistakable brand of strange. Garden provides a new take on The Falls stretched-out tendenciesusing ringing, clean guitars to build a nearly 10-minute epic more subtly than ever before. The opener, Eat Yself Fitter, is wholly classic Fall: a playfully circular bass line drives the albums strongest vocal spout, complete with emphatic breaks where Mark E. Smith issues the songs spiteful decree with equal parts glee and scorn.
Superior Viaducts edition is the first time that Perverted By Language has been available on vinyl domestically.
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