IMPORT. 2007 expanded edition of this 1991 album from Mark E. Smith and Co. featuring a bonus CD that contains 18 bonus tracks including B-sides, rarities, remixes and four Peel Sessions. Shift-Work, The Fall's second album for Fontana, is an edgy, accomplished and melodic work. Reflecting Mark E Smith's desire to make a simple album that was 'a bit more relevant to ordinary people' the band had been stripped down to a four-piece for the first time in its career. The new tightness energized Smith and so pr...   [ read more ]

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Shift-Work marked the sophomore effort from a new Brix-less Fall and is a slightly more subdued effort than the raging Extricate. It also marked a new direction for Mark E. Smith and the band as what once was repetitious grooves became interspersed with pop song structures. Don't worry, the classic riffage is still here in "The War Against Intelligence," "Idiot Joy Showland," and "So What About It." But there does seem to be a softening of Smith, albeit slightly. He still rail...   [ read more ]

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