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The 50 Best Post-Punk Albums Ever

The 50 Best Post-Punk Albums Ever

Explore 50 of the most brilliant, impactful, innovative, and controversial albums of the classic post-punk era, the reverberations of which will be felt for generations.

The Fall’s ‘Hex Enduction Hour’ Casts Long Shadows 40 Years On

The Fall’s ‘Hex Enduction Hour’ Casts Long Shadows 40 Years On

Easily among the Fall’s top two LPs and one of the finest slabs of controlled noise of the post-punk era, Hex Enduction Hour continues to kick up new dust 40 years on.

The Fall’s ‘The Frenz Experiment’ Gets an Expanded Edition

The Fall’s ‘The Frenz Experiment’ Gets an Expanded Edition

A more complete picture of the band's period output does wonders for the Fall's The Frenz Experiment.

The Fall Go Transatlantic with ‘Reformation! Post-TLC’

The Fall Go Transatlantic with ‘Reformation! Post-TLC’

The Fall's Reformation! Post-TLC, originally released in 2007, teams Mark E. Smith with an almost all-American band, who he subsequently fired after a few months, leaving just one record and a few questions behind.

The Moving Pixels Podcast Becomes Sentient, Discusses ‘The Fall Part 2: Unbound’

The Moving Pixels Podcast Becomes Sentient, Discusses ‘The Fall Part 2: Unbound’

This week we discuss self-consciousness, self-identification, and awful puzzle design in The Fall: Part 2 - Unbound.

The Fall: Singles 1978 – 2016 (album review)

The Fall: Singles 1978 – 2016 (album review)

Does the world really need another Fall anthology? Yes, absolutely, and this is it.

The Fall: A Frustrating Season Still Highlights Gillian Anderson’s Brilliant Character Work

The Fall: A Frustrating Season Still Highlights Gillian Anderson’s Brilliant Character Work

Season three of The Fall may not have lived up to the previous two seasons, but it remains a largely absorbing series.
Motorways, Bank Robbers, and Other Delights: A Conversation with Martin Bramah of Blue Orchids

Motorways, Bank Robbers, and Other Delights: A Conversation with Martin Bramah of Blue Orchids

John Peel and Nico loved his band and Mark E. Smith fired him. Martin Bramah marched through history with a band he can never seem to escape. After decades of trying not to, he's finally learned to embrace life in Blue Orchids.
Blue Orchids: Awefull / The Once and Future Thing

Blue Orchids: Awefull / The Once and Future Thing

Blue Orchids comes roaring back with new songs and a collection of early '80s Rough Trade sides.
The Fall: Wise Ol’ Man

The Fall: Wise Ol’ Man

The Fall have summoned another EP that will please the faithful while baffling everyone else.
How Artificial Intelligence Views Humans in ‘The Fall’

How Artificial Intelligence Views Humans in ‘The Fall’

We are faulty, we must be appeased, we are destructive, and ultimately we are self-destructive.
Attempting to Characterize Artificial Intelligence in ‘The Fall’

Attempting to Characterize Artificial Intelligence in ‘The Fall’

We want our machines to be more human. As creators, we try to make robots in our image.