Bend Sinister

In a bit of a freefall (you see what I did there), the band lose their true ride-or-die drummer, Karl Burns, and get — don’t kill me — their most powerful drummer, Simon Wolstencroft. Their sound is as coherent as it ever got, as we still have the unbeatable Brix/Steve/Craig backline in order. Problem is, nobody was feeling that catchy or brave. Still — “Living Too Late” or “U.S. 80’s - 90’s” are as good as anything The Fall ever did. I worked at a place that played this during Sunday brunch and the German tourists always liked it. There is proper gated reverb on the snare, so it’s in the klassik eighties mold.