Extricate

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The Fall: Mark E. Smith (vocals); Martin Bramah (guitar, background vocals); Craig Scanlon (guitar); Marcia Schofield (keyboards, percussion); Stephen Hanley (bass); Simon Wolstencroft (drums).
Additional personnel: Craig & Castle (vocals, organ); M. Edwards (guitar); Kenny Brady (fiddle); Charlotte Bill (flute, oboe).
Producers: Craig Leon, Adrian Sherwood, Cold Cut, Smith.
1990's EXTRICATE is among The Fall's most personal and least political albums. Recorded immediately after former Fall guitarist Brix Smith left both her husband, Mark E. Smith, and his band, EXTRICATE has little of the pop influence Brix had brought to the band during her six-year tenure. The reversion to The Fall's more abrasive pre-Brix sound is helped by the return of early Fall guitarist Martin Bramah to the fold. His distinctively scratchy guitar sound is one of the album's defining elements, the other being the near-obsessive venom Smith pours on his ex-wife, especially in the explosive opener "Sing! Harpy."
Elsewhere, the band enthusiastically tackles "Black Monk Theme Parts I and II" by the then-obscure '60s avant-garde band The Monks and works up a jagged wall of noise behind traditional Smith rants like "Arms Control Poseur" and "British People In Hot Weather." EXTRICATE is one of The Fall's finest efforts.