The Fall’s vocal polyphony was mediated through borrowed styles like Lewis’s telegraphic headlines

Evidence

Smith’s own methodology as writer-ranter-chanter echoes that of the hero-malcontent. He becomes (nothing but) the mystic pad on which stray psychic signals impress themselves, the throat through which a warring multiplicity of mutually antatognistic voices speak. This is not only a matter of the familiar idea that Smith “contains multitudes”; the schizophonic riot of voices is itself subject to all kinds of mediation. The voices we hear will often be reported speech, recorded in the compressed “telegraphic” headline style Smith borrowed from the Lewis of Blast. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1113

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Joy Division and the Fall represent opposite ends of Romantic modernism — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1108; The Fall’s Mark E. Smith abandoned Romantic subjectivity for a narrative author-function — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1109; The Fall’s aggression was formal disassembly of rock, not mere force — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1161 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• The Fall’s aggression was formal disassembly of rock, not mere force #expands (0.85) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1161
• Bernard Lewis mentored the neoconservatives who planned the Iraq War #exemplifies (0.72) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 264