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A Past Gone Mad
Rock · 2000 · 3 tracks

A Past Gone Mad

The Fall

A sharp survey of The Fall's 1990s output, blending jagged post-punk repetition with industrial synths and Mark E. Smith’s inimitable, caustic wordplay.

February 2000 · Artful Records

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A Past Gone Mad serves as a concentrated blast of The Fall during their mid-90s 'Permanent' era, a period where the band traded some of their earlier lo-fi scrap for a more muscular, synth-integrated sound. It is an album of contradictions: it is danceable yet alienating, polished yet jagged, and deeply intellectual yet delivered with the force of a pub brawl. The music is anchored by the band's signature repetitive grooves, but here they are augmented by 90s-specific textures - acid-house squelches, industrial percussion, and a cleaner, more clinical guitar tone that cuts through the mix like a scalpel.

Tracklist · 3 Tracks
01
The CD in Your Hand
0:45
15
Shake Off
3:07
16
(Jung Nev’s) Antidotes
3:04
Moments Worth Listening For
the sudden transition from the electronic pulse of The Mixer into the garage-rock stomp of Glam-Racket
Mark E. Smith's increasingly erratic and layered vocal delivery on M5, sounding like a man arguing with himself
the hypnotic, almost danceable bass groove of Lost in Music that threatens to collapse under its own weight
Where This Album DepartsEach spoke is a trait. The orange shape shows where this album pulls away from — or holds to — the rest of the artist’s catalogue. Tap for more.

How does A Past Gone Mad sound next to the rest of The Fall's catalogue?

Layered Dense+2.9σ

The production is built around layered dense than this artist usually allows.

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