Fat White Family - Forgiveness Is Yours (2024) [Hi-Res]

Four years in the making Fat White Family return with their fourth album "Forgiveness Is Yours". An eclectic, chaotic yet always coherent album that takes no prisoners. 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" ) & even shades of Robert Palmer in the insistent 80's pop of "Work". Lyrically literary influences abound, the aforementioned T S Eliot, poet Zaffar Kunial, transgressive philosopher Georges Bataille amongst others. Working with the forever ebbing & flowing line up of players & collaborators brothers Lias & Nathan Saoudi are the core songwriters with turns taken with long term band members Alex White & Adam Harmer & fellow travellers Jessica Winter & the esteemed Clive Langer. Taking artistic cues from the Fluxus movement & especially Yoko Ono's work visually, the album art is a exercise in minimalism, using a piece from Anna McDowell only embossed & pale grey imagery/text to draw you in.