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Fat Dog, London’s Latest Breakout Band, Takes on the World With Debut Album ‘Woof’: We ‘Hope You Feel It in Your Gut’
U.K. band Fat Dog heads to a dog park to discuss its debut album, 'Woof,' and taking inspiration from Nine Inch Nails and Kamasi Washington.
Since 2021, the Brixton-based five-piece has been slowly but surely winning over the London music scene with its wild, animalistic concerts, led by frontman Joe Love ( yes, that’s his real name) conducting the crowd into the kind of mosh pit where your legs detach from your body. Highlights included someone lighting a flare, a foam brick being thrown at Love’s head and the band’s sound engineer standing in the middle of it all to make sure Fat Dog’s unique blend of punk, electro-pop and funk infiltrated everyone’s ears. Now “Woof” has finally been born, a trippy, whiplash-inducing record that fittingly starts with Love yelling, “It’s fucking Fat Dog, baby!” Its nine songs combine Nine Inch Nails-esque crunchy synths, nonsensical lyrics and a whole bunch of wacky samples — chopped-up barking, a faltering heart monitor — to create a sound simultaneously familiar and never-before-heard.
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