Name: Serfs Up!
Brand: Fat White Family

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Bonus disc: No

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WIGMC401

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Rough Trade Exclusive

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Extended format

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Format detail

Limited White Shell Cassette in Cello-Wrapped Clear Plastic Outer Case with Six Panel Inlay and Download.

Format Music GB

Tape

Limited edition

Release date

2019-04-19

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

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0887828040148

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1 / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / Tape

WIGLP401

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Black

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Heavyweight Black Vinyl with Poster.

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0887828040117

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

WIGCD401

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Housed in Capacity Wallet with Poster

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0887828040124

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Fat White Family

Genre GB

Garage / Surf / Trash

Label GB

Domino

Albums of the Year - 2019

Domino is an independent label founded in Putney, South West London by *a694357* and his partner Jacqui Rice in 1993. The label initially focused on American acts such as *Sebadoh*, *Pavement* or *Royal Trux* before signing British acts in the late '90s.

The label operates a US division, located in Brooklyn, which output was initially identified by its own catalogue number schemes, DOMUS then DNO (used until 2013), when the releases handled by the UK headquarters are identified by WIG (albums) and RUG (singles and EPs) catalogue numbers.

The company operating the label, *Warp Records*, diversified, establishing a publishing arm and a series of labels (*Double Six Recordings*, *Weird World Record Co.*, *Rephlex*, ...).

Fat White Family is a British band known for their unique blend of garage rock, punk, and psychedelic music. The band consists of lead vocalist Lias Kaci Saoudi, guitarists Saul Adamczewski and Adam J. Harmer, keyboardist Nathan Saoudi, drummer Sam Toms, bassist Adam Brennan, and saxophonist Alex White. With their raw energy and provocative lyrics, Fat White Family has gained a reputation for their intense live performances and fearless approach to pushing musical boundaries.

Formed in 2011 in South London, Fat White Family quickly gained attention with their debut album "Champagne Holocaust" in 2013. The album showcased the band's dark humor and confrontational style, earning them a dedicated fanbase. They followed up with "Songs For Our Mothers" in 2016 which further solidified their reputation as one of the most exciting bands on the underground music scene.

Known for their controversial antics both on and off stage, Fat White Family have never been afraid to challenge societal norms through their music. Their songs often touch on themes of political disillusionment, addiction, and social unrest. Despite this rebellious image, they are highly respected by critics who recognize the band's artistic integrity and commitment to creating thought-provoking music.

Serfs Up! is Fat White Family’s third album and their first for new label Domino. It marks the most gratifying and unexpected creative volte face in recent musical history. 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.

Gregorian chants, jackboot glam beats, string flourishes, sophisticated and lush cocktail exotica, electro funk and the twin spirits of Alan Vega and Afrika Bambaataa punctuate the record at various junctures, while the dramatic production of Feet is as immaculately-rendered as Hounds of Love - era Kate Bush. The dirt is still there of course, but scrape it away and you’ll find a purring engine, gleaming chrome.

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. No longer is unadulterated music malevolence Fat White Family’s stock in trade; this is cultivated music for the head, the heart. For tomorrow’s unborn children.

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.

LP - Heavyweight Black Vinyl with Poster and Download.

LP+ - Limited Heavyweight Gold Coloured Vinyl with Poster and Download.

CD - Housed in Capacity Wallet with Poster.

Tape - Limited White Shell Cassette in Cello-Wrapped Clear Plastic Outer Case with Six Panel Inlay and Download.

Serfs Up!

Music GB

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