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Review: The Light User Syndrome was the 18th - yes, 18th, record from legendary alternate outfit The Fall. It came on Jet Records in 1996 at a time when the legendary band leader Mark E. Smith was at his most alcoholically antagonistic. As such it was a difficult time for the band but one that still bore fruit with Smith on most of the vocals but producer and performer Mike Bennett, drummer Karl Burns and guitarist Brix Smith also stepped up to the mic. Angular rhythms feature as always next to funny lyrics and unusually clean production.

Review: The Fall's Mark E. Smith was having a rather torrid time even by his own standards when the band made The Marshall Suite in 1999. He was fresh back from a US tour on which he had been fighting with fellow band members on stage and was later arrested after carrying on the shenanigans back at the hotel. The album itself builds on the techno sounds The Fall had explored on the preceding album Levitate but also with something of a return to the rockabilly-influenced sound from earlier Fall line-ups. Cuts like 'The Crying Marshal' are as strange and complex as they come with thumping jungle drums powering it along.