The Fall’s Final Album, ‘Post Script,’ Set for September Release

The Fall will close its catalogue this year. Post Script, a nine-track album assembled from material recorded with Mark E. Smith before his death in 2018, is set for release in mid-September via Cog Sinister Records. It marks the group’s first studio full-length since 2017’s New Facts Emerge and, according to a press statement, will be the final Fall album.

The lead single, “30 Degrees,” is out now — a lean, circling track co-written by Smith with Simon Archer and Ed Blaney in Salford. Its appearance confirms the record will draw directly from the late frontman’s working process, not from stray archives loosely shaped into a posthumous product. The full tracklist includes titles like “So Long,” “Colonel’s Retreat,” and “Irish Northern Man,” threading through the band’s familiar geography.

Since Smith’s passing, the Fall’s afterlife has been handled with some restraint. A box set of live performances arrived in 2018, a live album in 2021, and the same year brought Excavate! The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall, a book that doubled as a critical excavation. Post Script now adds a formal endpoint — not a reunion, but a last transmission from a band that, under Smith’s direction, rarely let closure look tidy.