Fat Dog - 'Cancel Me (I'm Tired)'
Fat Dog erupt back onto the scene with raw new single ‘Cancel Me (I’m Tired)’.
Festival favourites Fat Dog are back with their trademark industrial techo infused dance just in time for the heady summer heatwave.the band who were formed in London in 2020 during lockdown are known for their wild live performances and that abandon is perfectly captured in this track. Despite their usual upbeat pulsating synths driving this three and a half minute track, the inherently combative undertone of their lyrics such as: ‘Life, its a bitch/Like a chicken on a stick/Like a wart on your dick (Huh)/Life break your balls like S & M’ alludes to a sense of frustration and gives fans a taste of the broader mood of their ten track album of the same title set for release on October the third.
According to the band’s press release for the new single which was released on Wednesday, it was inspired by John Lennon’s ‘How Do You Sleep’, combined with frontman/songwriter Joe Love imagining “what Anatolian rock experimentalists Altın Gün would sound like if they were under siege from a thumping club beat”. As with signature songs like ‘All The Same’ from their debut album, Fat Dog exhibit a clear desire to tear up the dancefloor, with an uncanny knack for deeply catchy choruses that will rock their crowds to the rafters at their notoriously riotous live shows, in the spirit of their Wide Awake festival set that saw the Love crowd surf with glorious wild abandon to the fan’s sheer delight.The single is accompanied by a dizzying video shot with director James Winstanley on the hottest day of the year, which sees the band trying to avoid getting cancelled on an actual night out in London's Soho, an exuberant and messy pub crawl through the narrow streets narrowly missing lime bikes and rubbish bags.
As the band have colourfully teased themselves in anticipation of the album’s release: “Into its lyrical orbit, the record pulls mentions of addiction, family ties, love, AI, ancestry, extra-terrestrials, Chris Tarrant, S&M, B&M, H&M and M&Ms”. Hot off the back of a major support slot for Kneecap at Crystal Palace and with numerous festival slots and an intimate UK instore tour in the pipeline, by the time Fat Dog set out on the biggest UK headline tour to date to date taking in a night in October at the hallowed Brixton Academy, they will be firing on all cylinders for sure.
By Brendan Sharp
