Forgiveness is Yours

by Fat White Family

Forgiveness is Yours cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 26 April 2024
  • Label: Domino
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 40:14
  • Community rating: 3.55/5 from 4 ratings

Artists on this release: The Fat White Family, Luke E May, Jessica Winter, Liam D May, Orchestrate, Gamaliel Traynor, Dante Rendle Traynor

Album Notes & Community Reviews

On their fourth studio album, 'Forgiveness is Yours', Fat White Family refines their signature chaos into a baroque and brilliantly depraved statement. The record is a dense tapestry of sleazy disco rhythms, grandiose string arrangements, and industrial clatter, all serving as a backdrop for Lias Saoudi's sardonic, spit-flecked lyricism. Exploring themes of domestic horror, absurdism, and existential rot, the album is both the band's most musically ambitious and lyrically incisive work to date, a sprawling and uncompromising listen that pushes their avant-garde rock into unsettling new territory.

Genres

Descriptors: Dissonant, Satirical, Lo Fi, guitar-driven, atmospheric, theatrical, noisy, melodic

Tracklist

  1. The Archivist (1:29)
  2. John Lennon (3:53)
  3. Bullet of Dignity (2:59)
  4. Polygamy Is Only For The Chief (3:21)
  5. Visions of Pain (3:46)
  6. Today You Become Man (3:59)
  7. Religion for One (3:19)
  8. Feed The Horse (5:11)
  9. What's That You Say (3:43)
  10. Work (4:29)
  11. You Can't Force It (4:03)

Credits

  • The Fat White Family - primary artist, producer
  • Bridget Samuels - arranged by [strings]
  • Anna McDowell - cover [cover image]
  • Matthew Cooper - design
  • Paul J Street - design
  • Adam Jaffrey - engineer
  • Dante Rendle Traynor - engineer, producer, written-by
  • Gamaliel Traynor - engineer, producer, written-by
  • James Rushton - engineer
  • Jessica Winter - engineer, producer, written-by
  • Joel Burton - engineer
  • Katie Dermody-Palmer - engineer
  • Leon Muraglia - engineer
  • Liam D May - engineer, producer
  • Lias Saoudi - engineer, written-by
  • Nick Hart - engineer, written-by
  • Pat Collier - engineer
  • Simone Reca - engineer
  • Sarah Brooksbank - management
  • Matt Colton - mastered by, lacquer cut by
  • Matt Wiggins - mixed by
  • Spela Cedilnik - photography by [poster]
  • Luke E May - producer
  • Clive Langer - producer [additional production]
  • Orchestrate - strings
  • Nathan Saoudi - written-by
  • Alex White - written-by
  • Adam Harmer - written-by
  • Aidan Clough - written-by
  • Rupert Brown - written-by
  • Saul Adamczewski - written-by

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