Fat White Family has us in ‘Serfs Up’ mode

Following the announcement of Serfs Up!, their third album and their first for new label Domino, Fat White Family have shared the video to “Feet”, a suitably grandiose work directed by C.C. Wade which perfectly matches the overwhelming scope and ambition of the track.

Additionally, they have revealed details of two very special intimate shows at The Lexington in London on January 30th & 31st. The band’s last London show was a sold-out Brixton Academy in September 2016.

Tickets for the shows are on sale now via www.fatwhitefamilymusic.com and www.dice.fm

Having released their second album, Songs For Our Mothers in January 2016, core-members Lias and Nathan Saoudi relocated to Sheffield and set about writing the album. Joined by co-conspirator Saul Adamczewski and recorded at their own Champzone studios in the Attercliffe area of the city, Serfs Up! was finished in late autumn 2018 with the help of long-time collaborator, Liam D. May and features a guest appearance from Baxter Dury on Tastes Good With The Money.

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.

Where once they soundtracked a grubby Britain of vape shops, Fray Bentos dinners and blackened tin-foil, a crepuscular comedown realm stalked by Shipman, Goebbels and Mark E. Smith, Fat White Family now inhabit another cosmos entirely. Serfs Up! is the product of a band of outlaws reborn. Few but themselves could have forecast it: Fat White Family survived. Fat White Family got wise. Fat White Family got sophisticated.

Serfs Up!, released on 19th April 2019, will be available on CD (WIGCD401), standard vinyl (WIGLP401), Dom Mart exclusive vinyl (12″ heavyweight transparent red vinyl with fold out poster – WIGLP401XM) and via digital download (WIG401D). You can pre-order Serfs Up! HERE.

Photo credit: Duncan Stafford