The second album by South London seven-piece Fat Dog, 'Cancel Me (I’m Tired)'. After releasing their debut album 'WOOF.' in 2024 and becoming one of the UK’s most exciting breakthrough bands in the process, they have a good reason to be tired. They’ve spent the period since 'WOOF.’s release spreading their raucous, infectious and irresistible bark around the world. The reason that they want you to cancel them is that they’ve been around the world and they’re tired. But if Fat Dog - Joe Love, Chris Hughes, Morgan Wallace, Ellis Dickson, Michael Dunlop, Dillon Harrison and Jed Bevington - are tired with the world, the world is not tired of them. In fact, the world can’t get enough of them.
With follow up 'Cancel Me (I’m Tired)', Fat Dog have created an exhilarating, swaggering, panoramic, inventive, re-inventive, re-re-inventive electro-punk-art-pop-rock’n’roll-space-country triumph that deserves all the adjectives. Over ten mind-bending and melodic tracks, it blends electro-pop anthems, cascading rave bangers, cowboy-tinged pitstops and swirling psychedelia. 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. 'Cancel Me (I’m Tired)' possesses all the rabid frenzy and electrifying excitement of their debut but now delivered on a grand and glorious scale. Big, big things are ahead. Fat Dog are only just getting going.
STAFF COMMENTS
Barry says: A bracing selection of rowdy groove-heavy electro-punk, with a little more of a lean toward the garage indebted numbers like the eponymous single. 'Cancel Me (I'm Tired)' perfectly illustrates Fat Dog's uniquely appreciable sonic trajectory and furthermore, gets the head bouncing like nothing else. Gritty, momentum filled and rowdy. A good time all round.