The Light User Syndrome

The Light User Syndrome is the 18th album by the Fall, released in 1996 on Jet Records. It was the group's first album to feature keyboard player and guitarist Julia Nagle and the last to feature Brix Smith, while longtime guitarist Craig Scanlon was fired in late 1995 during troubled recording sessions for "The Chiselers" single which preceded the album. A version of "The Chiselers" is included on the album as "Interlude/Chilinism". Brix Smith told Simon Ford that The Light User Syndrome was recorded very quickly, with frontman Mark E. Smith absent for much of the recording, performing most of his vocals on the final day in studio. Although Julia Nagle remembers recording the vocals took more than a week, Smith himself claimed half the vocals were actually just guide vocals, which he found had been mixed as the final vocals when he took a day off from the studio. Despite this, alternate versions of many of the album's tracks featured heavily across the series of compilation albums issued by the Receiver label in the late 1990s. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lig...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)