The Fall - Singles Live Vol. 1: '78 - '81 Format:CD Created in mentor Paul Epworth's

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

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with Dave Cerminara returning as engineer and mixer

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

commercial success did not arrive till nearly 30 years later

The Fall - Singles Live Vol. 1: '78 - '81 Format:CD Created in mentor Paul Epworth'sLabel: 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"