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2000 - Ketamine Sun

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6 Nov 2000 - Album: The Unutterable "I loved you now and now you're gone" A confession - I really didn't like The Unutterable when it came out. I still didn't like it when I gave it a listen before one of The Fall Cups over on The Fall Forum some years ago. Hearing odd tracks after Mark E Smith's death made me think I might have got this album slightly wrong but I haven't heard it in its entirety in about eight years. Here goes... ... What was I thinking? This is tremendous! (I might write about why my taste may have changed in a future post but for now let's crack on with this so I can listen to it on repeat.) MES sounds in great form from the off and the production ( Grant Showbiz back in the chair for a studio album for the first time since Shift-Work ) is much cleaner than recent efforts. In fact, is The Unutterable the most different and most the same album in the Fall catalogue? As well as travelling some well worn Fall paths is