Code: Selfish The Fall

“An underrated Fall album, this release returned to a harder, more caustic band than found on the previous year’s Shift Work. Slimmed down to a four-piece, the Fall yet again returned with an experimental and menacing collection of songs. The centerpiece was “Free Range,” a bit of Mark E. Smith’s “prepsicognition” about the coming Balkan wars. Years later, it has the same chilling foresight of Yeats’s “The Second Coming.” Smith’s writing was beginning to pare itself down to the essence, relying on repetition and imagery, while the backing of Scanlon, Wolstencroft, and Hanley were translating the feel of sequenced techno into their guitars and drum attack. An album that improves with age.” - Ted Mills, AllMusic