I Am Kurious Oranj Rar -

It begins not with a seed, but with a rind. A tough, bitter, solar-orange rind that has been peeled back by a thumbnail caked with soil. Beneath it, the pith is a wound of white, and beneath that, the flesh is a universe of wet, segmented stars.

In the sprawling, chaotic, and fiercely intellectual discography of The Fall, few releases generate as much whispered reverence—or as many dead-end Google searches—as the elusive To the uninitiated, it looks like a typo. To the dedicated record collector, those four words represent a perfect storm of limited physical media, corporate sabotage, and Mark E. Smith’s legendary contrariness. I Am Kurious Oranj Rar