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The Fall: The Infotainment Scan

Stephen Dalton, Vox, May 1993

FALLWATCHERS might have expected serious new directions after the band's recent severance from Polydor, but their Permanent debut finds human word-processor Mark E Smith digging further into familiar obsessions such as burgeoning technology, urban paranoia and the woefulness of younger bands.

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