The Fall’s final album turns Post Script into one last dispatch from the edge

The Fall’s Post Script announcement on 15 June carries the strange gravity of a last message from a band that spent decades refusing to become finished, polite or properly explained. Set for release in September via Cog Sinister, the album is billed as the final Fall full-length and arrives eight years after Mark E. Smith’s death. The lead single, 30 Degrees, was co-written by Smith, Simon Archer and Ed Blaney in Salford, which gives the project the right kind of geographical voltage. Any posthumous Fall release has to wrestle with the question of continuation: where does the band end when the central force was so singularly impossible? Post Script seems to answer by not overexplaining. It simply lets another rough-edged transmission out into the world, one more dispatch from the wonderful and frightening kingdom Smith left behind.

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