''Re-Mit'' is the 29th studio album by the English
post-punk
Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad genre of punk music that emerged in the late 1970s as musicians departed from punk's traditional elements and raw simplicity, instead adopting a variety of avant-garde sensibilities and non-r ...
group,
The Fall. It was released on 13 May 2013 via
Cherry Red Records
Cherry Red Records is a British independent record label founded in Malvern, Worcestershire by Iain McNay in 1978. The label has released recordings by Dead Kennedys, Everything But the Girl, The Monochrome Set, and Felt, among others, as we ...
.
The album features
Mark E. Smith (lead vocals), Peter Greenway (lead guitar), Keiron Melling (drums), Elena Poulou (keyboards, vocals) and David Spurr (bass),
and marks the first time in the history of the Fall that the group have released four consecutive studio albums recorded with the same line-up.
Release
The album was announced in the early 2013.
The album track list was revealed on 11 April 2013. The first single from the album, "Sir William Wray", was released on 20 April for the 2013
Record Store Day
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.
The single contains the alternative versions of the album tracks "Sir William Wray" and "Hittite Man," and was limited to 1500 copies.
"Victrola Time" was recorded at the ''
Ersatz GB'' sessions in 2011 and later overdubbed for the 7" single "Night of the Humerons", where it featured as the lead track. It was released as part of Record Store Day in 2012, in a limited edition of 1000 copies.
The band toured the United Kingdom in May 2013 in support of the album.
''Re-Mit'' entered the
UK Album Chart
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during the week ending 25 May 2013 and peaked at number 40.
Reception
Upon its release, ''Re-Mit'' received some critical acclaim. At
Metacritic
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, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews and ratings from mainstream critics, the album has received a metascore of 63, based on 21 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews."
Track listing
Personnel
;The Fall
*
Mark E. Smith – lead vocals, production
* Peter Greenway – lead guitar, backing vocals
* Keiron Melling – drums
* Elena Poulou – keyboards, vocals
* David Spurr – bass, backing vocals
;Additional personnel
*
Tim Presley – guitar on tracks 1, 3 and 7
;Technical
* Simon 'Dingo' Archer – engineering
*
Grant Showbiz – engineering
* Andy Pearce – mastering
* Suzanne Smith – cover artwork
*
Anthony Frost – cover artwork
* Becky Stewart – cover artwork
Notes
References
External links
Semi-official the Fall website
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2013 albums
The Fall (band) albums
Cherry Red Records albums