Cerebral Caustic is the seventeenth full-length studio album by British post-punk group The Fall, released in 1995 on Permanent Records. It spent one week on the UK charts at number 67, 19 places lower than its predecessor Middle Class Revolt, marking the end of one of the group's relatively more successful periods.The album was most notable for the return of Brix Smith to the line-up, the guitarist having rejoined the group for live shows in 1994 after quitting in 1989.