The Fall: I am Kurious Oranj

The thing I remember about this album is that it was the last Fall album that I bought for a long while. In fact I realise that I haven't heard a single Fall album released since then all the way through. On M.J. Nicholls' advice I dipped into The Infotainment Scam, but what I heard didn't grab me.

On the basis of that memory, I imagined Kurious Oranj must have underwhelmed and disappointed me. So I'm surprised at (a) how familiar the album sounds, suggesting I must have played it a lot 22 years ago, and (b) how consistently enjoyable I found it. True, when it quotes from The Frenz Experiment's Bremen Nacht, you can hear it slipping up a gear. So it's not the band at their best, but it's not half bad.

And, yes, I did see I am Curious, Yellow at the cinema once, a long time ago. Curious by name, curious by nature. But, no, I never saw the Michael Clark ballet that was based around this album. I saw a much later Michael Clark performance that also featured Fall music — it wasn't for me.

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Comments

[M.J. Nicholls]

Well, 80s Fall is the best. This is their weakest of that decade, IMO, but it's full of stompers like "Cab It Up" and "Wrong Place, Right Time" so who cares.

[David]

I also really enjoyed Hex Enduction Hour when I downloaded it from eMusic a while back. If only they'd put other recent stuff like The Real New Fall LP on eMusic, I'd get it. But they don't, so I won't...