CARMEL – The Falling – CD – 828014.2

Nine tracks were offered here with admirable diversity of style and pacing, while the band’s strong identity even with four different producers [Eno, Motion, Hugh Jones, Chris Porter] at the helm managed to create a reasonably unified package. Each one of these songs ran the gamut of good to fantastic with no duds along the way, so the taste for Carmel was imprinted heavily with this album. I mentioned to a friend who had also had his head turned by Carmel’s “More, More, More” a few years earlier how I’d finally gotten a Carmel album and was loving it… then he appeared with a CD of the debut album and said “good, then you’ll want this.” Sweet. More for me, and immediate gratification on the first album didn’t hurt.

Post-Punk Monk