Your Future Our Clutter

Your Future Our Clutter
Studio album by The Fall
Released 26 April 2010 (2010-04-26)
Recorded 2009
Genre Post-punk
Length

48:11 (CD)

60:32 (Vinyl)
Label Domino Records
Producer Ross Orton, Mark E. Smith and Simon Archer
The Fall chronology
Imperial Wax Solvent
(2008)
Your Future Our Clutter
(2010)
Ersatz G.B.
(2011)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
The AV Club A- [2]
BBC (positive)[3]
Drowned in Sound (9/10)[4]
One Thirty BPM (42%)[5]
Pitchfork Media (8.0/10)[6]
Slant [7]
SPIN [8]
Popmatters (9/10)[9]

Your Future Our Clutter is an album by The Fall, released in the UK on April 26, 2010. It is the group's twenty-eighth studio album, and their first for independent record label Domino. The album was recorded at The Chairworks, Castleford and Elevator Studios, Liverpool. Publicity for the record describes it as the group's "most rampant, most forward moving, bone shaking best."[10] The album had previously been referred to as Our Future Your Clutter.

As with the group's preceding album, 2008's Imperial Wax Solvent, the line-up consists of Mark E. Smith (vocals), the group's chief songwriter and only constant member, as well as his wife Eleni Poulou (keyboards and vocals), Dave "The Eagle" Spurr (bass), Peter Greenway (guitar) and Keiron Melling (drums). The album was produced by Ross Orton, Mark E. Smith, and Simon "Ding" Archer, who produced three songs.

Your Future Our Clutter entered the U.K. Album charts at number #38. "Bury Pts. 1 + 3" peaked at #94 in France. The album has received favorable reviews, with New Yorker music critic Sasha Frere-Jones calling it one of the best albums of the year.[11]

Contents

CD Tracklist

  1. "O.F.Y.C. Showcase" (Mark E. Smith) - 5:49
  2. "Bury Pts. 1 + 3" (Smith, David Spurr) - 6:36
  3. "Mexico Wax Solvent" (Smith, Peter Greenway) - 6:14
  4. "Cowboy George" (Smith, Greenway, Eleni Poulou) - 5:42
  5. "Hot Cake" (Smith, Spurr) - 3:18
  6. "Y.F.O.C. / Slippy Floor" (Smith, Poulou, Greenway, Keiron Melling) - 7:42
  7. "Chino" (Smith, Spurr) - 5:20
  8. "Funnel of Love" (Kent Westberry, Charlie McCoy) - 2:55
  9. "Weather Report 2" (Smith, Poulou) - 6:35

Vinyl tracklist

The double vinyl version comes on 180g heavyweight vinyl with two exclusive, non-CD tracks: "986 Generator" and "Get a Summer Song Goin'" and features a re-ordered tracklist. It does not come in a gatefold sleeve.

A1. "O.F.Y.C. Showcase" - 5:49
A2. "Bury Pts. 1 + 3" - 6:36
A3. "Hot Cake" - 3:18
B1. "Mexico Wax Solvent" - 6:14
B2. "Y.F.O.C / Slippy Floor" - 7:42
C1. "Chino" - 5:20
C2. "Funnel of Love" - 2:55
C3. "986 Generator" - 8:03
D1. "Weather Report 2" - 6:35
D2. "Get a Summer Song Goin'" - 4:18
D3. "Cowboy George" - 5:42

Personnel

The Fall

Additional personnel

References

External links