If you’ve been paying any attention to UK music in the last year or two, you’ve probably already encountered Fat Dog. If not: South London seven-piece, debut album ‘WOOF’ in 2024, raucous electro-punk-art-rock with a lot of energy and very few rules.
Their frontman got married in Vegas mid-tour, they had collective breakdowns in LA, and they played four shows in 27 hours at Glastonbury. Now they’re back.
New single ‘Shit Love’ is stabbing synths, manic vocals and a beat that, as the band put it, sounds like a rollercoaster trying to shake itself off the tracks. It’s about “two fucking insane people who argue constantly and they are world-enders every time”, says frontman Joe Love, which is a pretty good brief.
It’s the third single from second album ‘Cancel Me (I’m Tired)’, out 2 Oct, a record that apparently pulls in addiction, AI, ancestry, Chris Tarrant, S&M, B&M, H&M and M&Ms. Big, then.
They headline Brixton Academy on 24 Oct.
🎧 Listen to ‘Shit Love’ below