The Fall’s final album featuring late frontman Mark E. Smith is in the final stages.
Ed Blaney, who had a brief stint as their manager and even became a member of the group in the 2000s, has confirmed the LP Post Script is on the way and boasts “nine absolute bangers”.
He shared to Facebook: “Have spent most the afternoon today listening to the final mixes of the official final studio album by The Fall, without any doubt I can say it’s an absolute brilliant album.
“A Fall fans dream and some … and for all the eager Fall fans awaiting the news, its release date and order details are imminent. The album is called ‘Post Script’ with 9 absolute bangers.”
Smith died in 2018 after a long illness with lung and kidney cancer, aged 60.
His last Fall album was 2017’s New Facts Emerge.
In 2022, former Fall members reunited for “A Fall Family Continuum project”, dubbed House Of All.
However, the project didn’t get the approval of Smith’s family and estate.
They said: “Whilst we wish you well in your future career and projects, we would like to make it quite clear and simple that the Family and Estate of Mark E. Smith in no way endorse nor wish to be associated with ‘House of All.
“Not only do we find this extremely offensive and very misleading to the wider audience and fans of Mark E. Smith The Fall, but it also causes us much sorrow, distress and discomfort.”
Meanwhile, Brix Smith previously admitted The Fall were massively “under-appreciated”.
The 63-year-old musician was the post-punk band’s lead guitarist and key songwriter alongside her ex-husband and felt she and the Totally Wired singer deserved more recognition for their “vision” as artists.
Speaking to BANG Showbiz shortly after his death, Brix said: “In his lifetime, I always thought that The Fall were so under-apprecaited, especially Mark E. Smith.
“He was singular in his vision and he never backed down from anything.
“People say, push the envelope, for him he created out of ether and he was just an amazing talent and quite a complicated man.
“He used to say to me that there are seven original people in this world and everyone else is a slate of one of those seven.”
Brix first met Mark at a Chicago concert in April 1983, and moved to his native Manchester in North England, where they married in July of the same year.
The punk rocker then joined the group for their record Perverted by Language, and remained in the band until they divorced in 1989.