![]() ![]() Leckie's production emphasizes space in the recording, while the band as a whole sounds generally more deliberate and understated, even Craig Scanlon's guitar not leaping quite as much to trebly life as is normally the case. Still, opening track "R.O.D." makes for a distinctly lower-key start in comparison to recent leadoffs like "Lay of the Land" and "Bombast," almost sounding a bit like fellow Mancunian legends Joy Division, Smith's lyric his own depressing vision of a beast slouching toward Bethlehem. Smith would rather have his tongue removed. ![]() Happily there was no worry that the Fall would ever go goth one suspects Mark E. Again working with John Leckie on production, the Fall's third Beggars album, Bend Sinister, was a distinctly down affair - not that the Fall were ever a shiny happy band, of course, but both music and lyrics seemed like a darker corner to dwell in. ![]()
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