This single marks the end of their association with Step-Forward Records and the final bit and a turning point for the Fall sound. The band itself was on a second or third incarnation by this point and was finally gelling into a unit that was rapidly honing its own thing.
Most importantly Craig Scanlon & Steve Hanley are in the band together at last and together they would form the spine that held together the Fall for the next fifteen years (when they'd finally had enough of Mark E.'s shit and quit.)
Over at the annotated Fall lyrics site they have a field day dissecting Mark E.'s thought process for "2nd Dark Age" See if it makes any sense to you. (Though for one always thought the line was "Oil-less women in veils, eyes glazed")
The last song is about psychics.
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