THE FALL - "Live at St. Helens Technical College" LP + 7"The Fall Live at St. Helens Technical College '81 LP + 7" (Castle Face, 2021) "Ive had the pleasure of being a Fall fan since I was a teen. I was lucky enough to have some guidance from my local record shop stoner lords. They turned me on to many of my heroes, but once I heard my first slanted and barky Fall song, I was part of the army for life. The word prolific gets tossed around a lot. It almost seems like a slag off in the press, as if they wish

“Kyrie Eleison” is by far the longest track

It goes beyond the perception of what we've seen or what we've known

Patrick has been blasting out music on his own as well as putting on shows for touring acts in the Western Massachusetts area under the Autonomous Battleship and Northern Routes monikers

” “Thirteen Ways of Looking”) that calls to mind the mixolydian swamplands of Lonnie Liston Smith — but unlike Odds

and literature

" Riordan uses his tremendous dexterity with keyboards to opposite ends

Almost in a proto-drill fashion

The drums kick your ass

and the most transcendent flute

the first of three thematic shows

occasionally snapping together into discrete drumbeats before disintegrating again

with a flair for dynamics and improvisation that seems directly inspired by Blawan and Pariah's well-loved project