A reminder that even at the peak of the Fall’s pop crossover they remained scabrous and uncompromising at heart.

This is the Fall's only studio album not still in print.

A hell of a ride.

New Facts Emerge fits comfortably in the group’s impossibly large catalog of difficult, abrasive, ultimately enthralling releases.

Mark E. Smith does what he wants.

[xrr rating=3.5/5]The Fall’s 30 studio albums make up only about a third of the total releases from Mark E. Smith and whomever he has hired and fired since 1976, when he founded this ornery, restless art-punk/ post-punk outfit. The rest of the group’s complicated discography consists of compilations and live albums, many of dodgy quality and issued without Smith’s consent. …

Nas – “Nas Is Coming” from It Was Written Most listeners with even a passing interest in hip-hop are aware that rapper Nas has an absolutely flawless album in his 1994 debut Illmatic. What significantly fewer listeners know is that Nas has an almost flawless follow-up album in 1996’s It Was Written. While it was initially pigeonholed as “the sophomore …