The Fall's twenty-sixth studio album, Reformation, is to be released early next year.

The album's expected late January/early February time. Excited? Me neither - it's not like there aren't a lot of Fall records in the world already, what with all the compilations and live things and all that jazz. Heck, they've released nearly as many albums as they've got former members.

Anyway, in other Fall news, two books related to the band are to be released soonish. Renegade: The Gospel According To Mark E. Smith - the man's autobiography no less - is out in April 2007, and Peverted By Language: Fiction Inspired By The Fall follows in June.

It is, basically, exactly what the title says. Wow? Yeah!