''Re-Mit'' is the 29th studio album by the English

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group, The Fall. It was released on 13 May 2013 via Cherry Red Records. The album features

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(lead vocals), Peter Greenway (lead guitar), Keiron Melling (drums), Elena Poulou (keyboards, vocals) and David Spurr (bass), and marks the first time in the history of the Fall that the group have released four consecutive studio albums recorded with the same line-up.

Release

The album was announced in the early 2013. The album track list was revealed on 11 April 2013. The first single from the album, "Sir William Wray", was released on 20 April for the 2013

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. The single contains the alternative versions of the album tracks "Sir William Wray" and "Hittite Man," and was limited to 1500 copies. "Victrola Time" was recorded at the ''

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'' sessions in 2011 and later overdubbed for the 7" single "Night of the Humerons", where it featured as the lead track. It was released as part of Record Store Day in 2012, in a limited edition of 1000 copies. The band toured the United Kingdom in May 2013 in support of the album. ''Re-Mit'' entered the

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during the week ending 25 May 2013 and peaked at number 40.

Reception

Upon its release, ''Re-Mit'' received some critical acclaim. At

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, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews and ratings from mainstream critics, the album has received a metascore of 63, based on 21 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews."

Track listing

Personnel

;The Fall *

– lead vocals, production * Peter Greenway – lead guitar, backing vocals * Keiron Melling – drums * Elena Poulou – keyboards, vocals * David Spurr – bass, backing vocals ;Additional personnel * Tim Presley – guitar on tracks 1, 3 and 7 ;Technical * Simon 'Dingo' Archer – engineering *

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– engineering * Andy Pearce – mastering * Suzanne Smith – cover artwork *

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– cover artwork * Becky Stewart – cover artwork

Notes

References

External links

Semi-official the Fall website
{{Authority control 2013 albums The Fall (band) albums Cherry Red Records albums