180 gm LP with DL. The original singer - that's right, singer! - for The Fall, before it was discovered that Mark E. Smith could not actually play guitar, Martin wrote most of the original music for the first several Fall records - Rebellious Jukebox, Various Times, It's The New Thing, Repetition, No Xmas For John Quays. Later he formed Blue Orchids. During a lull in Blue Orchids activity in 2006, Martin decided to record a solo album for his own amusement, of which he made around two dozen copies, making it among the rarest of all The Fall / Blue Orchids-oriented releases, and surprisingly, one of the best! With the exception of an overdub or two, Martin sings and plays all the instruments on the album. Nearly every song's a winner, from the opening put-down of Fall main man Mark E Smith, "The Fall Of Great Britain" to the closing "Necessity." Not quite rock, not quite folk, the album's simplicity and directness took on odd forms . . . Few people were lucky enough to hear the original release, which we've now restored, remastered and improved for its first eal' release. Both formats are limited edition releases, and the vinyl comes with a download card.
