The English post-punk band had been working on Post-Script before Mark E. Smith’s death in 2018
The Fall’s Mark E. Smith performing in 1996 (Getty Images)
Eight year’s after the Fall frontman Mark E. Smith died of lung and kidney cancer, the English post-punk band has announced a final album. Post Script will arrive on Cog Sinister Records in mid-September, per a press release, and a lead single, “30 Degrees,” is out now. Listen to that below.
“30 Degrees” was co-written by the late Smith and bandmates Simon Archer and Ed Blaney in Salford, England. The album gathers nine tracks total, and marks the group’s first full-length release since 2017’s New Facts Emerge. They also released a box set of live performances in 2018, and a live album in 2021. A book on the band, Excavate! The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall, came out the same year.
Revisit 10 Songs That Defined the Fall and Mark E. Smith.
01 30 Degrees
02 So Long
03 Colonel’s Retreat
04 Caveat
05 Final Position
06 Retro Song
07 Irish Northern Man
08 Dehydrated
09 The Book