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The Best Songs from the Best Albums of the Last Year
Jan 07, 2025
By Mark Redfern
We have put together a Spotify playlist for our Top 100 Albums of 2024 list and it’s 10 hours long. It features at least one song from each of our Top 100 in the order the albums appear on the list, from our #1 album to our #100. Some albums are represented by multiple songs filtered throughout the list. More
Forgiveness Is Yours Due Out This Friday on Domino
Apr 23, 2024
By Mark Redfern
British punk band Fat White Family are releasing a new album, Forgiveness Is Yours, this Friday via Domino. Now they have shared another new song from it, “Work,” via a music video. More
Plus Fat White Family, Phosphorescent, English Teacher, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Jan 26, 2024
By Mark Redfern (with Andy Von Pip and Caleb Campbell)
Welcome to the third Songs of the Week of 2024. More
Forgiveness Is Yours Due Out April 26 on Domino
Jan 24, 2024
By Mark Redfern
British punk band Fat White Family have announced a new album, Forgiveness Is Yours, and shared a new song from it, “Bullet of Dignity,” via a music video. More
Plus J Mascis, Birthmark, Fat White Family, and a Wrap-up of the Last Two Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Dec 15, 2023
By Mark Redfern
Welcome to the 40th Songs of the Week of 2023. This will probably be the final Songs of the Week of 2023. More
New Single Out Now on Domino
Dec 14, 2023
By Mark Redfern
British punk band Fat White Family have shared a new song, “Religion for One,” via a music video. More
Decius Vol. I Due Out November 4 via The Leaf Label
Oct 11, 2022
By Joey Arnone
Decius, a new group featuring Lias Saoudi of England’s Fat White Family, have shared a video for their new song, “Show Me No Mercy,” featuring Maggie the Cat. It is the latest release from the group’s forthcoming album, Decius Vol. I, which will be out on November 4 via The Leaf Label. More
Plus Devendra Banhart, Metronomy, Luke Temple, and a Wrap-up of the Week's Other Notable New Tracks
Jun 21, 2019
By Christopher Roberts
Welcome to another Songs of the Week. It’s a supersized edition, with a Top 12 instead of a Top 10. A ton of new albums were announced in the last week and then there were some albums and EPs released today featuring non-single tracks we’ve been dying to share in Songs of the Week. More
Serfs Up! Out Now via Domino; UK Tour Dates Announced
Jun 18, 2019
By Christopher Roberts
England’s Fat White Family released a new album, Serfs Up!, back in April via Domino, their first for the label (and third album overall). Now they have shared a remix of one of its singles, “Feet,” done by Jarvis Cocker of Pulp alongside DJ Parrot. More
Plus Heather Woods Broderick, Wand, The Soft Cavalry, and a Wrap-up of the Week's Other Notable New Tracks
Apr 19, 2019
By Mark Redfern
Welcome to another Songs of the Week. It was slim pickings this week for truly inspiring new tracks, but there were enough to recommend to put together this week’s list. We also realized their were two songs we should’ve included on recent Songs of the Week lists but neglected to, so we’ve given them special mention here. More
Wand is the Runner Up (Plus Stream New Albums from Lizzo, Drugdealer, Diane Coffee, and More)
Apr 19, 2019
By Christopher Roberts
England’s Fat White Family have released a new album, Serfs Up!, today via Domino, their first for the label (and third album overall) and it’s our Album of the Week. Find out more info on it below. Also below are streams for other albums released today, including close runner-up Laughing Matter, by Wand. More
Serfs Up! Out Now via Domino
Apr 19, 2019
By Christopher Roberts
England’s Fat White Family have released a new album, Serfs Up!, today via Domino, their first for the label (and third album overall). Now that the album is out, you can stream the whole thing here. More
Serfs Up! Due Out Tomorrow via Domino
Apr 18, 2019
By Christopher Roberts
England’s Fat White Family are releasing a new album, Serfs Up!, tomorrow (April 19) via Domino, their first for the label (and third album overall). Now they have shared another song from the album, “When I Leave,” via a strange video for the track. Fiona Godivier directed the clip, which features a weird parade through a forest. More
Plus Tamaryn, Fat White Family, Tame Impala, Cate Le Bon, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Mar 22, 2019
By Christopher Roberts
Today was a fantastic day for new album releases, with fresh full-lengths from Strand of Oaks, Jenny Lewis, Andrew Bird, Tamaryn, Sleeper, These New Puritans, American Football, Lambchop, Avey Tare, Nilüfer Yanya, Ex Hex, and others. Album tracks from some of them made this week’s Songs of the Week list, which also contains several new singles released this week. More
“Tastes Good With the Money” Video Directed by Róisín Murphy
Mar 20, 2019
By Christopher Roberts
England’s Fat White Family are releasing a new album, Serfs Up!, on April 19 via Domino. Now they have shared another song from the album, “Tastes Good With the Money,” via a crazy and bloody video directed by fellow musician Róisín Murphy that has a bit of a Monty Python vibe to it. The song features Baxter Dury, who also appears in the video. More
Plus SOAK, SASAMI, POND, Beirut, Priests, Steve Gunn, and a Wrap-up of the Week's Other Notable New Tracks
Jan 11, 2019
By Mark Redfern
Welcome to the first Songs of the Week of 2019. We took an extended break in December, as there aren’t too many notable new songs released at the end of the year (beyond endless Christmas covers), but the past week has been filled with exciting new album announcements, most accompanied by new singles worthy of consideration for this list. More
Serfs Up! Due Out April 19 via Domino and Features Baxter Dury
Jan 10, 2019
By Christopher Roberts
British trio Fat White Family have announced a new album, Serfs Up!, and shared a new song from it, the string-backed “Feet.” More
Jun 30, 2017
By Stephen Mayne
As crazy as political life may be in the US, Britain has its own problems after voting a year ago to completely reshape the country by leaving the European Union. Lias Saoudi of Fat White Family and The Moonlandingz joins us this week to discuss Brexit before we throw in healthcare reform, travel bans, cancelled festivals, and Glastonbury. More
Champagne Holocaust Due Out August 19
Jul 24, 2014
By Laura Studarus
Save for a few shows at SXSW, Fat white Family hasn’t spent much time on our side of the pond. More
Mar 31, 2014
By Laura Studarus
Here’s a SXSW photo gallery by Mark Redfern. More
Reviews
Apr 29, 2024
By Matt the Raven
It’s recommended you clear some brain space before listening to Forgiveness Is Yours, the fourth album by South London cult band Fat White Family. More
May 09, 2019
By Matthew Slaughter
Staggering out of a Brixton blur of warehouse parties and cheap drugs, London’s Fat White Family appeared to be a bunch of sloppy urchins with a penchant for Birthday Party rip-offs; songs like 2014’s “Touch the Leather” and “I Am Mark E Smith” setting out a vaguely shambolic stall of bleak but perhaps humorous, crawling, creeping punk rock. More
