While much of The Fall’s formidable ’70s and ’80s back catalog has been reissued in recent years following Mark E. Smith’s death in 2018 at the age of 60 and the earlier reissue campaign by Superior Viaduct of their 1979 to 1983 material, here is an often-overlooked piece of Fall history that has finally gotten the reissue treatment. A half-studio, half-live curio often overshadowed by their more well-known studio albums, it’s aged far better than it has any right to, especially given that Smith often dismissed this period as a commercial and comprised vision, leading him to retreat into slightly more experimental and abrasive territory in much of the ’90s and beyond.
All that said, side A is composed of studio tracks recorded in 1989, the most well-known…

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