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• Hex Enduction Hour is the fourth studio album by The Fall, released in March 1982 on Kamera Records. Recorded partly in Iceland and partly in Hertfordshire, it is often considered one of the bands definitive statements. The album captures The Fall at their most uncompromising: abrasive guitars, repetitive grooves, raw production and Mark E. Smiths acerbic, surreal wordplay pushed to the front. Songs like The Classical, Jawbone and the Air-Rifle and Hip Priest embody the bands jagged, hypnotic style, turning chaos into something strangely precise.

  The record has since become a cult classic, frequently cited as one of the essential post-punk albums. Its sound is stark and unpolished yet brimming with urgency, reflecting the bands ethos of rejecting polish in favour of force, wit and experimentation. For many fans and critics, Hex Enduction Hour represents The Fall at the height of their creative powers, a document of both menace and innovation that has aged with undiminished intensity.

  Reviews

  Hex Enduction Hour is one of The Falls best albums, and as close as they ever got to a consensus classic. AllMusic

  Its still a head-wrecking, thrilling listen. The Guardian

  A monstrous, sprawling record Hex Enduction Hour confirmed The Fall as the most idiosyncratic and uncompromising band of their generation. NME

  Brutally raw and confrontational, yet endlessly inventive. Record Collector

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  AllMusic rating: AllMusic users: (391 votes) Read the AllMusic.com review

• Artist: The Fall Label: Superior Viaduct Format: LP Units: 2 Country: US Genre: Punk & Alternative Style: Indie Rock, Post-Punk

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  The classical

  Hrprobe Track 1: The classical

  Jawbone and the air-rifle

  Hip priest

  Hrprobe Track 3: Hip priest

  Fortress / deer park

  Hrprobe Track 4: Fortress / deer park

  Mere pseud mag. ed.

  Winter (hostel-maxi)

  LP

  Winter

  Just step s’ways

  Who makes the nazis?

  Iceland

  And this day