A dispute has erupted over Post Script, an album featuring unused vocals by the late Fall frontman Mark E Smith, which is being promoted as the band’s final official album. Smith’s fiancée and former manager, Pamela Vander, calls the release “ethically wrong” and a “cash grab”, arguing that Smith had decided while alive that 2017’s New Facts Emerge was the Fall’s final album. The album’s creators defend it as a respectful tribute and say Smith’s vocals make it a legitimate Fall record.

Post Script contains nine tracks assembled from vocals recorded between 2001 and 2014, rather than material made during the Fall’s final sessions. Longtime collaborators Ed Blaney and Simon “Ding” Archer added music to recordings found in Smith’s archive, with the album due for release on 2 October in several physical and digital formats. Vander says it should instead have been presented as a Mark E Smith archive release, while the producers maintain that the project completes unfinished ideas and will be the last album of previously unheard studio recordings.