FALL, THE - Code: Selfish LP

Highly recommended.

The Fall here show little sign of deviating from their own particularly perverse path.

Lip supremo Mark E. Smith offers 13 standard eccentricities. 'Birmingham' is one of two six-minute rants - MES rambles on about that fair city's previously uncelebrated school of business, before launching into the menacing swing of 'Free Range'.

'Time Enough' is Samuel Beckett with a bunged-up nose, 'Married Two Kids' a surprisingly touching ode to the mixed blessings of the marital boat, and, oddest of all, 'Crew Filth' sounds like just that, more than five minutes of roadies saying bad words to quite excellent effect.