This Nation's Saving Grace is a 1985 LP by The Fall. It reached number 54 in the UK charts and is frequently cited, along with Hex Enduction Hour as one of the group's strongest and most consistent. Paul Hanley left The Fall in November 1984, leaving Karl Burns as the group's sole drummer. Bassist Steve Hanley took four months' paternity leave in the early part of 1985 so consequently he took very little part in the writing of the album, ('Bombast' being his sole writing credit). After tours of the North of England and the U.S, the group recorded the double a-sided single "Couldn't Get Ahead/Rollin' Dany" and subsequent single "Cruiser's Creek" with Simon Rogers standing in on bass. The group had met Rogers through ballet dancer Michael Clark and he had already co-produced the early record