How to talk about The Fall in just a few pithy sentences? How to get a handle on a career covering 32 studio albums, plus endless live albums and bootlegs, across a 40 year career? How do you sum up an acerbic bastard/poetic genius like Mark E. Smith?
We’ll be starting with the debut, and probably barely scratching the surface of what came after, but there is no question that this is a band (and a front man) we’ll never see the likes of again.