The Fall: Sub-Lingual Tablet - review

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Sub-Lingual Tablet

(Cherry Red)

The title, a surreal pun on medical pills and iPad-induced illiteracy, is a sign Mark E Smith is on good form for The Fall's 31st album. So is the music, performed by the most settled line-up in the band's volatile history.

Spidery riffs look back to the band's 1980s heyday while Korg synthesiser melodies blossom like the wayward fruit of krautrock. There are sudden bursts of hardcore punk action and descents into surreal psych-rock mantras.

Meanwhile Smith groans and barks invective against our shiny modern age of technology, not so much the ghost in the machine as the sound of sand being chucked into it.

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