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Background
The Fall have started writing and performing some of the songs that would end up on Perverted by Language and adjacent singles already around the time of Hex Enduction Hour release in spring of 1982. However, the growing personal tension between the Fall leader Mark E. Smith and guitarist/keyboardist Marc Riley resulted in latter leaving the band in early 1983. Smith later blamed Riley for being "too melodic" and "only wanting to play hits", something which Riley denies. Riley's exit left Craig Scanlon as the sole guitarist and made the band's sound more sparse, with more focus on the rhythm section. Most of Riley's parts were subsequently not used in the finished versions of new songs, although he still got a credit in "I Feel Voxish".

The band continued to roadtest new material throughout winter of 1983 in UK and Europe. On March 21 they recorded "Smile", "Garden", "Hexen Definitive/Strife Knot" and "Eat Y'Self Fitter" at Maida Vale studios for a John Peel session. Peel stated on air that when he first heard "Eat Y'Self Fitter", he fainted and producer John Walters, had to resuscitate him. Peel later picked the song as one of his Desert Island Discs.

A troubled US tour in April saw longtime Fall manager and Smith's partner Kay Carroll quit in Boston after a heated argument. Despite Carroll taking most of their tour proceedings as well as venue contacts with her, the band still managed to finish the tour. At one of the last dates, in Chicago, Smith met young fan Laura Salenger (nicknamed Brix) after the show; the two fell in love and Brix soon moved to Prestwich and became Smith's wife.

As the Fall's previous label Kamera were heading into bankruptcy, Smith made a decision to return to Rough Trade, despite less than acrimonius split two years earlier. First release in their renewed partnership was the single "The Man Whose Head Expanded" (b/w "Ludd Gang") in July 1983, followed with double A-side single "Kicker Conspiracy"/"Wings" in September.

Amstedrum (talk)"Hotel Blöedel"

// The album was the only full-length product of the band's renewed relationship with Rough Trade, whom they had previously left in 1981. This time, they fell out over the full-length video the band wished to make for the album. The video Perverted by Language Bis went ahead funded by the group themselves and producers Ikon, who released the finished product on VHS in 1984 (a DVD edition was released by Cherry Red in 2003). By that time, the group had signed to Beggars Banquet.