The Fall’s Final Album Set for Autumn Release

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The English post-punk band had been working on Post-Script before Mark E. Smith’s death in 2018

June 14, 2026

Eight year’s after the Fall frontman Mark E. Smith died of lung and kidney cancer, the English post-punk band has announced a final album. Post Script will arrive on Cog Sinister Records in mid-September, per a press release, and a lead single, “30 Degrees,” is out now. Listen to that below.

“30 Degrees” was co-written by the late Smith and bandmates Simon Archer and Ed Blaney in Salford, England. The album gathers nine tracks total, and marks the group’s first full-length release since 2017’s New Facts Emerge. They also released a box set of live performances in 2018, and a live album in 2021. A book on the band, Excavate! The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall, came out the same year.

Revisit 10 Songs That Defined the Fall and Mark E. Smith.

01 30 Degrees

02 So Long

03 Colonel’s Retreat

04 Caveat

05 Final Position

06 Retro Song

07 Irish Northern Man

08 Dehydrated

09 The Book

Hattie Lindert is an associate staff writer at Pitchfork. A former editor at Resident Advisor, she has written for Rolling Stone, The FACE and The A.V. Club, among others. She’s based in New York, and born and raised in Vermont. ... Read More