The new Fat White Family album has landed. Look at that poster too. On Limited gold vinyl. Serfs Up! is a lush and masterful work, lascivious and personal. Tropical, sympathetic and monumental. It invites the listener in rather than repel them through wilful abrasion. Fat White Family have broken previous default patterns of behaviour, and as such their third album heralds a new day dawning. Echoing within the arrangements throughout are traces of blissed-out 60s Tropicalia, Velvets / Bowie sleaze-making and star-gazing, 80s digital dancehall, David Axelrod-style easy listening, joyous Pet Shop Boys synth crescendos, acid house, post-PIL dub, metropolitan murder ballads, doom-disco and mouth-gurning, slow-mo psychedelia so by the time it comes to a close only a fool would deny that Serfs Up! is something very special indeed.
An album steeped in lush, lascivious, tropical warmth – imagine Arcade Fire in a trippy haze with Alan Vega heading down to the doom-psych-disco.
Fat White Family – “When I Leave”, from ‘Serfs Up!‘, out 19th April 2019 on Domino Record Co
Fat White Family – “Tastes Good With The Money”, from ‘Serfs Up!’, out 19th April 2019 on Domino Record Co.
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