Excavate!

The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall

AvTessa Norton,Bob Stanley

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

THE LOUDER THAN WAR #1 BOOK OF THE YEARA ROUGH TRADE, THE TIMES, MOJO, UNCUT BOOK OF THE YEAR'Thoroughly engrossing, insightful and immersive.' Record CollectorOver a prolific forty-year career, the Fall created a world that was influential, idiosyncratic and fiercely original; it was an education. Who wouldn't want to be armed with a working knowledge of M. R. James, contemporary dance and Manchester City.Bringing together previously unseen artwork, rare ephemera and handwritten material, alongside essays by a slate of fans, Excavate! is a vivid, definitive record - an illumination of the dark corners of the Fall's wonderful and frightening world.'As jagged and as curveball-hurling as peak-period Fall, Excavate! is a box of tricks, lovingly curated . . . tantalising' The i'To 50,000 Fall Fans: please buy this inspired & inspiring, profound & provocative, beautiful & bonkers Book of Revelations.' David Peace'Gorgeous' The Washington Post

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-05-08
Mått:227 x 26 x 187 mm
Vikt:1 030 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Faber & Faber
Antal sidor:360
Förlag:Faber & Faber
ISBN:9780571396139

Utforska kategorier

Musikböcker inom Kultur
Musik: stilar och genrer inom Kultur
Musiker, sångare och grupper inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Bob Stanley is the author of Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop (Faber, 2013), and Let's Do It: The Birth of Pop (Faber, 2022), Bee Gees: Children of the Word (Nine Eight, 2023) and has written for the Guardian, The Times, NME and The Face. He is also a filmmaker, and founding member of the group Saint Etienne. He was Writer in Residence at the British Library in 2017.Tessa Norton writes regularly about art, books and music for various publications including The Wire, and for exhibitions and events including FACT, Wysing Arts Centre, Somerset House, Liverpool Biennial, The Tetley, SPACE and more. She published the artists' book The Fields Here Are Full of Ghosts with Wysing Arts Centre in 2019, and she was a Jerwood Arts Fellow at FACT gallery for 2020-21.

Recensioner i media

"To 50,000 Fall Fans: please buy this inspired & inspiring, profound & provocative, beautiful & bonkers Book of Revelations." - DAVID PEACE"Mind blowing... brilliant." - TIM BURGESS "A container sized treasure trove bursting at the hinges with strangeness and wonder ... I strongly advise you to buy it." - MAXINE PEAKE