The Fall’s Mark E. Smith parallels black music’s world-building despots
Evidence
The closest equivalents to the Smith of Hex would be the deranged despots of black sonic fiction: Lee Perry, Sun Ra and George Clinton, visionaries capable of constructing (and destroying) worlds in sound. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1162
Categorization
- SHARE: Worth sending to anyone who loves both post-punk and Sun Ra/Lee Perry for the unusual pairing.
- XREF: connects to: The Fall’s Mark E. Smith treated England as a pathological poison and cure — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1142; Mark E. Smith ran the Fall as an autocractic shaman-author purging spontaneity — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1150; The myth of the Fall seeds the secular West’s capacity for horror (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- The myth of the Fall seeds the secular West’s capacity for horror
#responds-to(0.85) - The Fall and League of Gentlemen share a grotesque humour mixing comedy with menace
#responds-to(0.85) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1174