Mark E Smith’s fiancée and last manager hits out at The Fall’s final album as “cash grab” and “ethically wrong”

Mark E Smith’s fiancée and final manager has hit out at The Fall’s forthcoming “final” album ‘Post Script’, describing it as a “cash grab” and “ethically wrong”. READ MORE: Mark E. Smith: 1957 – 2018, the obituary The nine-track record is due for release through Cog Sinister on October 2 and features unused studio vocals recorded by Smith between 2001 and 2014, with former Fall members and longtime associates Ed Blaney and Simon “Ding” Archer adding new music to them after his death. When ‘Post Script’ was first announced in June, it was initially reported that the recordings had been part of an album The Fall were working on before Smith’s death in January 2018. However, Pamela Vander has now told The Guardian that none of Smith’s vocals on the record were made after The Fall released their 2017 album ‘New Facts Emerge’, which she says Smith had decided would be the band’s final record. “They’re selling it as ‘the final album’ so people will think Mark made it on his deathbed, but none of it [vocally] was made after ‘New Facts Emerge’,” she said. “I have Mark’s actual last recordings – he was working on a cover of Madonna’s ‘Material Girl’ – but by the time of his death he had mad...