Your Future Our Clutter

Now intact for two consecutive albums, this incarnation of the Fall is the most stable in 15 years, with good reason: it's a ferocious unit, propulsive, choppy and playful.

Thirty-four years after the band’s genesis, Smith is continuing to take influence from everything he hears, no matter how unexpected it might be. As long as he keeps that up, he’ll continue to challenge the idea of what a band as old as the Fall is supposed to sound like.

Mark E. Smith's veteran band teams with indie heavyweight label Domino for this lean, brute-force rock record.

What makes Your Future Our Clutter sound unusually fresh for a 28th album is an absorption of a variety of influences.

Too insider to cross over or consider one of their classics, but an otherwise solid Fall effort offering everything fans require.

While it doesn’t quite hit with the immediacy of 2008’s Imperial Wax Solvent, Your Future Our Clutter has already proved to be quite the grower, with complex lyrics and penetrating aesthetics.

There are a couple of moments when something on a higher plane is reached and for Fall completionists, that will more than suffice. For the rest of us, it’s just another Fall album and – yeah – it’s pretty decent. 

At this point in their career, nobody expects the Fall to sound like anything but themselves or to try anything new, but Your Future Our Clutter is a good introduction for the curious and satisfying for the devoted.