Splinters

It's new Fall album time - no 29: Ersatz GB.  Here's my review - it's good. Me and other Fall fans will like it, most people won't. A marginally less flippant observation: I'd say the last few albums (post 2007)  are less collections of songs; more skewed symphonies. Of these, last year's  Our Future, Your Clutter is still the most outstanding to me, but give me a bit more time on the new one until I finalise that decree.

Robert Chalmers' interview in The Independent with MES is the best one in years.Amidst the firey bluster,  there's a spark of vulnerability on show for a change. For a nanosecond.  Though as always, the bluster's brill.

"I'm much more left now, though. I think Stalin had the right idea. Take one out of five fucking newspaper editors, and MPs, and shoot them. Then they'd buck up."  

Meanwhile I will be paying homage to  the man and his brow-beaten pawns at Manchester's Royal Exchange this Sunday. My  14th live worship I believe,  at various shrines since 1993. He's a genius you see, whether your irrelevant mind can see it or not.  There are worse cults, and that's true even if consonants change.