Ersatz G.B.

Ersatz GB is the 29th studio album by the post-punk band The Fall, released on Cherry Red Records 14 November 2011. It is The Fall's first album on Cherry Red. Ersatz GB was recorded partially in London with Smith's vocals being recorded at ToeRag Studios in Hackney and partially in Berlin. It features the same group lineup as its two immediate predecessors, Imperial Wax Solvent (2008) and Your Future Our Clutter (2010), establishing the current lineup as unusually stable by The Fall's standards. This is the first three-studio-album sequence without any changes in personnel in The Fall's career. The album was produced by the group's frontman, Mark E. Smith, and The Fall's frequent collaborator and former bass guitarist Simon Archer. In...