Cover of The Fall Hex Enduction Hour
Emanuel Fantoni

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For fans of the fall, lovers of post-punk and garage rock, and listeners interested in rebellious, underground music with social critique.
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THE REVIEW

It is thanks to free time that I, in part, have grown. To my great detriment, since free time, without fortune, increases debts, and humiliations arise from debts. But, to my great profit, in terms of sensitivity, meditation, and the faculty of dandyism and dilettantism, other cultured men are, for the most part, ignorant drudges, and so are the young people in our academies, vile parasites where the imposition of the academies is to memorize the text for exams. Fuck off.

The true great ones are the Illiterates et idiots, free from any suspicion of any culture, like Mark E. Smith, he dropped out of state school after elementary, this piece of genius, his school was the street, he flushed intellectualism down the toilet, only thus could he become a genius, one of the pioneers of post-punk, the apostle of garage-wave. He, like all the great geniuses and dandies detached from any state culture, understood that in the bourgeois regime, workers always fall into the hands of the owners, that is, those who have some state asset at their disposal.
Well and more than well is paid only the work of those who contribute to increasing the prestige and sovereignty of the state, that is, the work of high officials, distinguished servants of the state, the state pays well, so that its good citizens, "burgers" that is, good bourgeois, remain loyal, it provides security by paying well its servants, with whom it forms a defense corps for the good owner citizens, a police. The police include soldiers, state employees of all types, for example, in the branches of justice, education, in short, the entire state machine and its bourgeois citizens. The workers hold the most enormous power (and this is said by a convinced anti-communist and anti-capitalist, that is, I): if they became truly aware of it and used it, nothing could resist them, it would be enough for them to stop working, consider as their own the product of the work done up to that point and enjoy it.

This is the true meaning of freedom: liberation from work, the state is founded on the slavery of work, if work becomes free, the state will be lost. The Fall in Hex Enduction Hour have released their most rebellious and anarchic work, no code to follow, degraded rock and roll, barbaric, pretentious garage at breakneck speed, Smith rants in the most total dialectical anarchy, the pinnacle of The Fall along with This Nation Is Saving Grace.

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This review celebrates The Fall's Hex Enduction Hour as a rebellious and anarchic post-punk masterpiece. Mark E. Smith, praised as a genius outsider free from formal intellectualism, leads the album with raw, fast-paced garage rock. The review explores themes of cultural critique, the nature of work, and authentic freedom. The album stands as a pinnacle in The Fall's discography alongside This Nation Is Saving Grace.

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01   The Classical (05:16)

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02   Jawbone and the Air-Rifle (03:43)

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04   Fortress / Deer Park (06:41)

05   Mere Pseud Mag. Ed. (02:49)

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06   Winter (Hostel-Maxi) (04:26)

07   Winter 2 (04:33)

08   Just Step S'ways (03:22)

09   Who Makes the Nazis? (04:27)

11   And This Day (10:18)

The Fall

The Fall were an English post-punk band formed in 1976, strongly identified with vocalist and main lyricist Mark E. Smith, known for constant line-up changes and a repetitive, abrasive, minimalist sound.
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