Yet another Fall album to fill the bins, this U.S version (out today and bought at a fine indie retailer in Eugene) arrives a month later than the U.K. issue. One track less for us Yanks (The Usher is gone, it seems), but we do get some bonus multi-media stuff in four videos from their "legendary 2006 North American Tour" (hey, that's what it says on the back cover, I'm sure everybody knows what happened last spring in the southwest).
Can only give this thing one listen through tonight...........and the first verdict is that I don't like it as much as the last two. I don't think Insult Song or Das Boot will find its way onto the airways of even the most adventurous radio stations, but Over! Over! gets things off in a good manner, while Reformation is closet in terms of "classic" Fall sound. There's another cover, this time of Merle Haggard's White Line Fever, which the band has fun playing, but I still rather prefer Dino's Houston from the previous album, The Real New Fall LP.
First verdict: 3 and a half stars, out of five. More later
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