The Fall - It's The New Thing"The Fall's next 45 hit in November 1978 to find the group squarely between their first two Peel sessions, yet still pre dating their first LP. Critical acclaim was starting to swell; the lineup was already morphing to include Marc Riley and Yvonne Pawlett (whose globby approach to the cheap keyboard cemented the instrument's place in the band). 'It's the New Thing' is a straightforward punk out, while 'Various Times' shifts focus to a darker

commonly abbreviated to R&B

Texas studio with his partner

this series is a must for fans of early JA sounds

the re-master of 'Visiting' was supervised firsthand by Leon

Chatham created and layered feedback loops of varying durations using Riley‰۪s method in order to create rich

just an unparalleled set of chiming

Beatlesy songs about cars and girls

bare-bones four-track psychedelia to goggle-eyed garage rock marauder backed at long last by a band that both shares and stokes his singular vision

‰Û÷Doolittle‰۪ was an instant hit

Makes Lou Reed sound like a bricklayer

A bit like us really

It's an approach that delivers a contrast of muscular shocks with the fiery central riff of 'Snake Oil' and the menacing percussive march of 'Albatross' set against some of the band's most openly experimentally moments to date such as cocktail of afrobeat and drum machines that underpins 'Night Swimmers' and the stripped-back