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The Fall - Grotesque (After The Gramme): Why It's One Of Their Best Albums



The attorney for the family of Penn State fraternity pledge Timothy Piazza, who died after falling down stairs during a pledge ceremony at the frat house, called the actions of the fraternity brothers who didn't call for help the \"worst possible debauchery and depravity that you could possibly have anywhere, let alone a college campus.\"


Piazza, a 19-year-old Penn State sophomore, died on Feb. 4 after he fell down the stairs at Penn State's Beta Theta Pi fraternity the night of Feb. 2. Piazza's blood alcohol content reached 0.28 and 0.36 percent that night. Police were not called to the Beta Theta Pi house -- which has since been barred from Penn State -- until about 12 hours after the initial fall. According to the forensic pathologist, Piazza's death \"was the direct result of traumatic brain injuries.\"




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Piazza was carried upstairs after the fall, appearing unconscious. During the night Piazza was slapped in the face, slammed onto a couch and hit in the abdomen by fraternity members. After 3 a.m., Piazza tried to stand but he fell, hitting his head on the floor. A fraternity brother attempted to shake him but then left the room. Shortly before 4 a.m. Piazza again tried to stand but fell face down on the floor.


At about 5 a.m., Piazza stood and then fell head first into an iron railing, landing on a stone floor. \"He gets up again and attempts to go to the front door, but before he reaches it he falls head first into the door,\" the grand jury report says.


\"That dark night in that Penn State fraternity, the Piazzas lost their precious son,\" Kline said. \"They saw his bright future blossoming and then it all disappeared by the grotesque actions of people who were supposed to be his friends.\"


\"They were trying aggressively and affirmatively to make sure that Tim did not get help because it was against their interests,\" Kline said. \"They knew that if they were caught with liquor, if they were caught with a young man who had fallen down the stairs all those hours later, that it was going to be a problem for them.


About a half an hour after Piazza's fall, a newly initiated member, Kordel Davis, saw Piazza lying on the couch, \"thrashing and making weird movements,\" he later told the grand jury. He said he screamed at the fraternity brothers for help, stressing that Piazza needed to go to the hospital because he could have a concussion. One brother shoved Davis into a wall and said they had it under control.


But out the window burned the roadsThere were men with bees on sticksThe fall had made them sickA man with butterflies on his faceHis brother threw acid in his faceHis tattoos were screwedThe streets of Soho did reverberateWith drunken Highland menRevenge for Culloden deadThe North had rose againBut it would turn out wrongThe North will rise again


I suspect Scorn will be one of the more polarising games of the year, with some hailing it a masterpiece, and others insisting it's too short, badly paced, too obscure, not scary enough, and with no satisfying narrative conclusion. I fall somewhere in the middle. I love Scorn for its atmosphere, its light-touch storytelling, its world-building, and confident hands-off puzzling. It's just a shame those wonderful attributes are a tad undermined by that measly save system and tedious combat.


On 24 January 2018, Smith died at his home in Prestwich, Greater Manchester after a long illness. He was 60 years old.[42] Smith had been diagnosed with terminal lung and kidney cancer, which his family confirmed had contributed to his death.[43] The announcement of Smith's death was made by his partner and Fall manager Pamela Vander. Smith had struggled with alcoholism and periodic drug use throughout his adult life,[44] and had undergone treatment on a number of occasions. His condition led to him falling and suffering bone fragmentation a number of times from the mid 2000s, leading to his performing several dates in a wheelchair and cast. A heavy smoker, Smith had long suffered from throat and respiratory problems; yet his work ethic or output never declined and he continued to release a new album close to once a year.[45]


His lyrics, delivered in a heavy Mancunian accent, are often cryptic,[4] absurdist and inscrutable, and were described by critic Simon Reynolds as "a kind of Northern English magic realism that mixed industrial grime with the unearthly and uncanny, voiced through a unique, one-note delivery somewhere between amphetamine-spiked rant and alcohol-addled yarn."[49] Smith described his approach as wanting to combine "primitive music with intelligent lyrics".[50] Thematically, his frequently densely layered lyrics often centre around descriptions of urban grotesques, gloomy landscapes, "crackpot history", and are infused with regional slang.[51]


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