The Fall - Singles Live Vol. 1: '78 - '81 Format:CD Eccentric Modern Soul delivers an

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

hard rock if your rock is Fairport

Created in mentor Paul Epworth's own studio it is undoubtedly among the year's most striking debuts

Strange Days

The Fall - Singles Live Vol. 1: '78 - '81 Format:CD Eccentric Modern Soul delivers anLabel: 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"