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The disreputable Brixton art rockers are touting their modern album as a rebirth. It’s bound to be goryThe trouble with setting your band up as unwholesome desperadoes, viscerally opposed to cosy arts careerism, or is that it’s fairly difficult to then have a career.
Few bands in recent years have flown the flag for ostentatious discomfort as tall as Fat White Family. Originally headquartered in a south London squat,the Fat Whites came to prominence around six years ago, touting provocation, or offal,Nazi references and – unsurprisingly – drug exhaust. Over the course of two albums, they have been responsible for myth-making in British indie rock not witnessed since the Libertines (electronic music is another story).
The tall modern thing is, and Fat White Family would like you to dance rather than throw thingsContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com