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The video, directed by Stephen Agnew, hints to Ken Russell, Ingmar Bergman and MANDY while revealing the true origins of the cult of Fat Dog and their actual chief.
“It’s fucking Fat Dog, baby” – 8 months on since their sprawling debut single King of the Slugs was launched, the sentiment stays sturdy as the primary phrases of Fat Dog’s debut album WOOF. are bellowed out by frontman and squadron chief Joe Love, actual title Joe Love.
One of essentially the most thrilling breakthrough bands of the previous few years, conjurers of the form of frenzied and wild stay exhibits not seen within the capital for years, and with solely two tracks out up to now the menacing All the Same was unleashed in January, Fat Dog are actually the creators of WOOF., a superb and mind-bending file, due for launch on September sixth by way of Domino.
When the chaotic south London rabble often called Fat Dog fashioned, they made two guidelines: they had been going to be a wholesome band who taken care of themselves and there could be no saxophone presence of their music. Two easy edicts to stay by, and two issues long-since damaged by the Brixton five-piece. “Yeah, it’s all gone out the window,” says Love.
Life is simply too quick to stay to any plans you made within the unsettling, strait-jacketed instances of 2021 anyway. That was when Fat Dog got here collectively, Love deciding to kind a bunch and take the demos he had been making at home as a technique to preserve himself sane throughout lockdown out into the world. In Chris Hughes (keyboards/synths), Ben Harris (bass), Johnny Hutchinson (drums) and Morgan Wallace (keyboards and, umm, saxophone), Love discovered like-minded mavericks to assist deliver the dream home. “A lot of music at the moment is very cerebral and people won’t dance to it,” says Hughes. “Our music is the polar opposite of thinking music.”
Hughes ought to know. He was a fan of the band, at that time making a reputation for themselves with a sequence of exhilarating and/or wonky exhibits throughout south London, earlier than he was within the band. Those formative gigs fashioned the bedrock of what Fat Dog had been all about, seizing the second, ingesting an excessive amount of with the second, going home individually from the second however making up with the second once more the subsequent day.
It didn’t take lengthy for the kennel-dwellers to return flocking, each Fat Dog present in London changing into an enormous upgrade on the final. They offered out the Scala in October 2023 and, final week, performed a triumphant set to a sold-out Electric Brixton. There is one thing deeper occurring right here than the standard punter-goes-to-gig state of affairs. Everyone is in on it. “There’s a sense of community about Fat Dog,” says Hutchinson.
And it’s not simply the capital who’ve been bitten; just lately, the band accomplished an ecstatically acquired tour of the US that included an all-conquering set at a taco joint. No lunches had been harmed. They will tour the UK subsequent month and in November together with their subsequent hometown present at London’s O2 Forum Kentish Town on Saturday twenty third November in addition to acting at a string of festivals within the UK and Europe this summer time earlier than heading again to North America in October.
The sound Fat Dog make, Love says, is screaming-into-a-pillow music. “I wanted to make something ridiculous because I was so bored,” he declares. It’s an exciting mix of electro-punk, rock’n’roll snarling, techno soundscapes, industrial-pop and rave euphoria, music for letting go to. Produced by Joe Love, James Ford and Jimmy Robertson, WOOF. passes by in a flash. Influences embrace Bicep, I.R.O.Okay., Kamasi Washington and the Russian experimental EDM group Little Big.
The album is a go to into the thoughts of Joe Love – be grateful you’ve gotten solely been granted a brief cross. “Music is so vanilla,” says Love. “I don’t like sanitised music. Even this album is sanitised compared to what’s in my head. I thought it would sound more fucked up.”
Check out the video for the brand new single under.
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WOOF. Tracklisting:
1. Vigilante
2. Closer to God
3. Wither
4. Clowns
5. King of the Slugs
6. All the Same
7. I’m the King
8. Running
9. And so it Came to Pass
Pre-order album here.
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