Your Future Our Clutter
{{Short description|Album by The Fall}}
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{{Infobox album
| name = Your Future Our Clutter
| type = studio
| artist = The Fall
| cover = Thefall_yourfuture.jpg
| alt =
| released = {{start date|2010|4|26|df=y}}
| recorded = 2009
| venue =
| studio =
- Chairworks Studios, Castleford
- 6db Studios, Salford
| genre = Post-punk
| length = 48:11 (CD)
60:32 (Vinyl)
| label = Domino
| producer =
- Ross Orton
- Simon Archer
- Tim Robbins
- Mark E. Smith
| prev_title = Last Night at The Palais
| prev_year = 2009
| next_title = Ersatz G.B.
| next_year = 2011
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Your Future Our Clutter
| type = studio
| single1 = Slippy Floor
| single1date = 16 November 2009
| single2 = Bury!
| single2date = 17 April 2010
}}
}}
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1Score = {{rating|3.5|5}}[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r1742745|pure_url=yes}} "AllMusicGuide Review"]. AllMusicGuide. allmusic.com. 4 May 2010 Accessed 5 May 2010.
| rev2 = The A.V. Club
| rev3 = Drowned in Sound
| rev4 = The Guardian
| rev4score = {{rating|4|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/apr/22/fall-your-future-our-clutter-review|title=The Fall: Your Future Our Clutter|website=The Guardian|last=Costa|first=Maddy|date=22 April 2010|access-date=14 May 2025}}
| rev5 = Mojo
| rev5score = {{rating|4|5}}Their latest album offers all the anti-matter salve for the irritations of modern culture that admirers expect. [May 2010, p. 92]
| rev6 = NME
| rev6score = 8/10{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100430030820/http://www.nme.com/reviews/the-fall--2/11246|title=Album Review: The Fall - 'Your Future, Our Clutter' (Domino)|website=NME|last=Turner|first=Luke|date=26 April 2010|access-date=14 May 2025}}
| rev7 = Pitchfork
| rev7Score = 8.0/10{{cite web|url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14202-your-future-our-clutter/ |title=Pitchfork Media review}}
| rev8 = PopMatters
| rev8Score = 9/10{{cite web|url=https://www.popmatters.com/123666-the-fall-your-future-our-clutter-2496192714.html |title= Popmatters review}}
| rev9 = Q
| rev9score = {{rating|4|5}}Your Future Our Clutter is the Fall's finest in years. [Jun 2010, p.133]
| rev10 = Slant Magazine
| rev10Score = {{rating|4|5}}{{cite web|url=http://www.slantmagazine.com/music/review/the-fall-your-future-our-clutter/2095 |title=Slant Magazine review}}
}}
Your Future Our Clutter is an album by the Fall, released in the UK on 26 April 2010. It is the group's twenty-seventh studio album, and their first for independent record label Domino. The album was recorded at Chairworks Studios, Castleford and 6db Studio, Salford.{{cite web|url=https://thefall.org/discography/data/album28.html|title=Your Future Our Clutter|publisher=The Fall online|accessdate=26 June 2021|last=Paton|first=Conway|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20210626201614/http://thefall.org/discography/data/album28.html|archivedate=26 June 2021|url-status=live}} Publicity for the record describes it as the group's "most rampant, most forward moving, bone shaking best."[http://www.dominorecordco.com/uk/news/18-02-10/new-album---the-fall---your-future-our-clutter---26th-april/ "New Album – The Fall – Your Future Our Clutter – 26th April"]. Domino Records. Dominorecordo.com. 18 February 2010. Accessed 18 February 2010. The album had previously been referred to as Our Future Your Clutter.
As with the group's preceding album, 2008's Imperial Wax Solvent, the line-up consists of Mark E. Smith (vocals), the group's chief songwriter and only constant member, as well as his wife Eleni Poulou (keyboards and vocals), Dave "The Eagle" Spurr (bass), Peter "PP" Greenway (guitar) and Keiron Melling (drums). The album was produced by Ross Orton, Mark E. Smith, and Simon "Ding" Archer, who produced three songs.
Your Future Our Clutter entered the UK Album charts at number No. 38. "Bury Pts. 1 + 3" peaked at No. 94 in France. The album has received favourable reviews, with New Yorker music critic Sasha Frere-Jones calling it one of the best albums of the year.Frere-Jones, Sasha. [http://sashafrerejones.com/2009/11/best_of_2010_1.html "S/FJ: BEST OF 2010"]. Sashafrerejones.com. 20 November 2009. Accessed 16 November 2010.
Track listing
=CD edition=
{{track listing
| total_length = 48:11
| title1 = O.F.Y.C. Showcase
| writer1 = Mark E. Smith
| length1 = 5:49
| title2 = Bury Pts. 1 + 3
| writer2 = Smith, David Spurr
| length2 = 6:36
| title3 = Mexico Wax Solvent
| writer3 = Smith, Peter Greenway
| length3 = 6:14
| title4 = Cowboy George
| writer4 = Smith, Greenway, Eleni Poulou
| length4 = 5:42
| title5 = Hot Cake
| writer5 = Smith, Spurr
| length5 = 3:18
| title6 = Y.F.O.C. / Slippy Floor
| writer6 = Smith, Poulou, Greenway, Keiron Melling
| length6 = 7:42
| title7 = Chino
| writer7 = Smith, Spurr
| length7 = 5:20
| title8 = Funnel of Love
| writer8 = Kent Westberry, Charlie McCoy
| length8 = 2:55
| title9 = Weather Report 2
| writer9 = Smith, Poulou
| length9 = 6:35
}}
=Vinyl edition=
The double vinyl version comes on 180g heavyweight vinyl with two exclusive, non-CD tracks: "986 Generator" and "Get a Summer Song Goin'" and features a re-ordered track list. It does not come in a gatefold sleeve.
{{track listing
| total_length =
| headline = Side A
| title1 = O.F.Y.C. Showcase
| writer1 = Smith
| length1 = 5:49
| title2 = Bury Pts. 1 + 3
| writer2 = Smith, Spurr
| length2 = 6:36
| title3 = Hot Cake
| writer3 = Smith, Spurr
| length3 = 3:18
}}
{{track listing
| headline = Side B
| title4 = Mexico Wax Solvent
| writer4 = Smith, Greenway
| length4 = 6:14
| title5 = Y.F.O.C. / Slippy Floor
| writer5 = Smith, Poulou, Greenway, Melling
| length5= 7:42
}}
{{track listing
| headline = Side C
| title6 = Chino
| writer6 = Smith, Spurr
| length6 = 5:20
| title7 = Funnel of Love
| writer7 = Westberry, McCoy
| length7 = 2:55
| title8 = 986 Generator
| writer8 = Smith, Melling
| length8 = 8:03
}}
{{track listing
| headline = Side D
| title9 = Weather Report 2
| writer9 = Smith, Poulou
| length9 = 6:35
| title10 = Get a Summer Song Goin'
| writer10 = Smith
| length10 = 4:18
| title11 = Cowboy George
| writer11 = Smith, Greenway, Poulou
| length11 = 5:42
| total_length = 60:32
}}
- "Cowboy George" contains an uncredited sample of Daft Punk's "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger", which is heard briefly fading in and out during the intro.{{Cite web|url=https://www.whosampled.com/sample/62784/The-Fall-Cowboy-George-Daft-Punk-Harder,-Better,-Faster,-Stronger/|title=The Fall's 'Cowboy George' – Discover the Sample Source|website=WhoSampled|access-date=2017-11-26}}
Personnel
- Mark E. Smith – lead vocals, tapes, production
- Eleni Poulou – keyboards, bass, backing vocals
- Peter "PP" Greenway – guitar
- Dave "The Eagle" Spurr – bass guitar
- Keiron Melling – drums, percussion
Technical
- Ross Orton – production, engineering, mixing
- Simon "Ding" Archer – production, engineering
- Tim Robbins – additional production, engineering
- Russell Fawcus – engineering
- Chris Potter – mastering
- Mark Kennedy – cover art
- Safy Etiel – cover art
Charts
| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" |
| Chart (2010)
! Peak |
|---|
| {{album chart|Greece|48|artist=THE FALL|album=YOUR FUTURE OUR CLUTTER |rowheader=true|access-date=6 July 2022}} |
References
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External links
- [http://www.labouchemag.com/issue-three.php?art=85 "EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW with The Fall's Elena Poulou"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713180353/http://www.labouchemag.com/issue-three.php?art=85 |date=13 July 2011 }}. La Bouche, issue 3. October 2009.
- [http://www.visi.com/fall/gigography/image/2009-10_mojo.jpg Mojo excerpt]
- [https://www.twitter.com/Dominorecordco/ Domino Recording Co. Twitter]
- [http://www.dominorecordco.com/uk/news/18-02-10/new-album---the-fall---your-future-our-clutter---26th-april Your Future Our Clutter press release from Domino]
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