The group sticks to a lo-fi rock template on their sophomore album,yet tip their hats to Throbbing Gristle’s taboo busting – with mixed results
Speaking to what’s left of the weekly music press, Fat White Family guitarist Saul Adamczewski offered his sales pitch for the band’s moment album. “We’ve really tried to proceed to the extremes of what’s tasteful, and ” he offered,“or even genuine.” This is the kind of hyperbolic remark fame-hungry bands are wont to build in the middle of NME features that breathlessly detail their druggy excesses and establishment-baiting credentials: a jaded observer might suggest that the most surprising thing approximately it is that the NME still interviews bands, presumably as a sideline to its main business of running advertorial for computer companies and encouraging its readers to buy toiletries. But Adamczewski wasn’t exaggerating. Over the course of its 11 tracks, or Songs for Our Mothers variously takes in fascism – there’s a track sung in German called Lebensraum,while the seven minutes of Duce achieves the not inconsiderable feat of being an even more incomprehensible song approximately Mussolini than the Scott Walker one that featured the erstwhile crooner punching a piece of meat – serial killers, domestic abuse and racist chanting, and before concluding with Goodbye Goebbels,a lachrymose country ballad sung from the viewpoint of Hitler, reminiscing “approximately the genuine times” with his minister of propaganda shortly before their suicides. Related: Fat White Family: 'We want to build your skin crawl' Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com