Recorded February 1981 Artist The Fall Label Rough Trade Records | Length 23:45 Release date 27 April 1981 Genre Post-punk | |
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Released April 27, 1981 (1981-04-27) Slates
(1981) Live in London 1980
(1982) Producers Adrian Sherwood, Geoff Travis, Grant Showbiz | ||
The fall slates ep vinyl
Slates is an EP by The Fall, released on 27 April 1981 through Rough Trade Records.
Contents
- The fall slates ep vinyl
- The fall leave the capitol slates ep 1981
- Release
- Reception
- Personnel
- Songs
- References
The fall leave the capitol slates ep 1981
Release
Slates was released on 27 April 1981. Containing six tracks and pressed onto 10" vinyl, it was eligible for neither the single nor album charts, being too long for the former and too short for the latter. However, it was included in the UK Independent Album chart, where it reached No. 3.
Slates made its first appearance on CD in 1992 on the Dojo label, where it was coupled with live album A Part of America Therein, 1981. This pairing was re-pressed with amended artwork in 1998 by Castle Music. Slates was finally given a proper remastered CD edition from the original master tapes in 2004, with seven additional tracks being added to bolster the brief running time. The first three additional tracks formed the group's fourth session for John Peel; the next two tracks were issued as a single in December 1981; and track 13 was an outtake from 1981, previously featured on a budget compilation titled The Collection (Castle, 1993).
Reception
AllMusic wrote, "Not a bad taster if you're new and want some post-punk, pre-pop Fall – and 90 percent of this is prime material."
Personnel
Songs
1Middle Mass3:32
2An Older Lover Etc4:37
3Prole Art Threat1:57