The Fall - Singles Live Vol. 1: '78 - '81 Format:CD with Dave Cerminara returning as

with Dave Cerminara returning as engineer and mixer

hard rock if your rock is Fairport

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

Hey Joe (Billy Roberts) 3:23

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

The Fall - Singles Live Vol. 1: '78 - '81 Format:CD with Dave Cerminara returning asLabel: 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"