Description

Indies only clear vinyl 140gm LP in 3mm spined sleeve with embossing on front and back cover with 470mm x 594mm poster included.

Fat White Family are back with the most sophisticated, vital and flamboyant creation of their career.
The cult south London band’s resplendent fourth album, ‘Forgiveness Is Yours’, like everything they’ve done, has pushed them to the limits not only of their creative talent, but of their health, their sanity, their very existence.
Starting with the T S Eliot influenced ‘The Archivist’, the album moves from the Pentangling of ‘John Lennon’ to the growling swaggering synths of ‘Polygamy Is Only For The Chief’, taking in spoken word (the harrowing ‘Today You Become A Man’) and even shades of Robert Palmer in the insistent 1980s pop of ‘Work’.
Lyrically, literary influences abound, the aforementioned T S Eliot, poet Zaffar Kunial and transgressive philosopher Georges Bataille amongst others.
Working with the forever ebbing and flowing line up of players and collaborators, brothers Lias and Nathan Saoudi are the core songwriters, with turns taken with long term band members Alex White and Adam Harmer and fellow travellers Jessica Winter and the esteemed Clive Langer.
Taking artistic cues from the Fluxus movement and especially Yoko Ono’s work visually, the album art is an exercise in minimalism, using a piece from Anna McDowell, embossed and pale grey, to draw you in.

Tracklisting

The Archivist
John Lennon
Bullet of Dignity
Polygamy Is Only For The Chief
Visions of Pain
Today You Become Man
Religion for One
Feed The Horse
What’s That You Say
Work
You Can’t Force It