The Fall - Singles Live Vol. 1: '78 - '81 Format:CD with a freshness that defines

with a freshness that defines an artist who is too excited by music-making to ever truly settle into any one sound

Mild High Club makes a long-awaited comeback with Going Going Gone

Strange Days

with Dave Cerminara returning as engineer and mixer

Eccentric Modern Soul delivers an expansive soundscape that feels both nostalgic and new

The Fall - Singles Live Vol. 1: '78 - '81 Format:CD with a freshness that definesLabel: Bella Union Reissued 5 30 2025 "I have seen the madness in my area" sings Mr Smith on track 4 of this record. That sentence sums up a lot of The Fall's appeal to me: they looked at The North, the place I was brought up in, and saw something alien and inexplicable in it. Not "Gritty Northern Realism" but rather "Snotty Northern Sur realism". A welcome alternative to all that Hovis advert, brass band, "Ee by gum", "Last of the Summer Wine"