Globo - ‘(Globo's) This Nation's Saving Grace‘ (CD)

British art electronica monkeys Globo covered the entirety of The Fall’s 1985 album ‘This Nation’s Saving Grace’, pulling the original inside out to make an electronic collage from a much-loved classic. As much homage as it is sacrilege, they presented the album at the evening event of the University of Salford’s academic conference on the The Fall in 2008 where they met Mark E Smith’s sisters and mother. These last few boxes of the album were discovered in Globo’s archives as they prepare to reissue their debut album, 1995’s ‘Pro War’.

Globo emerged in the mid-90s with their sample-heavy dark electronica-infused debut LP ‘Pro War’ and scored several Singles Of The Week in the weekly music press with their first two singles ‘Beautiful Feeling’ and ‘Autosleeper’. They wrote the theme tune and idents for the BBC TV show ‘Fist Of Fun’ featuring Stewart Lee and Richard Herring. They released a further two albums, ‘This Time It’s Globo’ and ‘This Is London, 1966’ before ‘(Globo’s) This Nation’s Saving Grace’ in 2008. Their cover of Devo’s ‘The Day My Baby Gave Me A Surprize’, commissioned as part of the the London label Hydrogen Dukebox’s ‘Sing And Play’ series, was used in an Italian television advert for a large chain of electronics shops which enabled them to build a studio where they worked on various music and film-related art projects over the following decade.