Fat Dog have today (June 30) unveiled details of their new album, ‘Cancel Me (I’m Tired)’ and have shared its propulsive new title track – check it out below.
The track is the latest from the former NME Cover stars and follows on from last month’s release, ‘Go Fuck Urself‘.
The band followed up their 2024 debut album ‘WOOF.’ with last summer’s rowdy standalone singles, ‘Peace Song‘ and ‘Pray To That’ before getting to work on the new album, which arrives on October 2 and you can pre-order it here.
The new song is said to be inspired by John Lennon’s ‘How Do You Sleep’, “combined with frontman [and] songwriter Joe Love imagining what Anatolian rock experimentalists Altın Gün would sound like if they were under siege from a thumping club beat,” a statement explained.
The track affirms at the start:“If you wanna cancel me/Then go ahead and do it please,” and is “the sound of what happens when people push your buttons and your buttons start pushing back,” the statement added.
The video was shot by director James Winstanley and sees the band trying to avoid getting cancelled on a night out in London’s Soho. Watch it below:
Work on the latest album began after the band returned home from their US tour last year, which also saw frontman Joe Love get married in Las Vegas after proposing to his girlfriend in San Francisco. “We played a gig to two people in Vegas,” Joe recalls, “and then the next day I got married.”
A statement added: “And so, it was with depressed Elvis ringing in his ears that Joe got home and began work on the second Fat Dog album. On their debut, Love had left the lyrics until last, letting the heady momentum of the music lead the way, but this time he felt he had much more to say.
“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,” it was revealed.
Check out the album artwork and full track list here:
‘Cancel Me (I’m Tired)’ – Track list
1. ‘Smile and Wave’
2. ‘Go Fuck Urself’
3. ‘Cancel Me (I’m Tired)’
4. ‘Heart Of Darkness’
5. ‘Shit Love’
6. ‘Call It What You Want’
7. ‘Snakes’
8. ‘Bad Dog’
9. ‘The Devil’
10. ‘Aliens’
The band are also in the middle of playing a host of festival and support slots this summer, before kicking off a UK & European headline tour in October.
Check out a list of shows below and visit here for tickets.
JULY
1 – Olympiastadion, Berlin, DE (supporting Foo Fighters)
3 – Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna, AT (supporting Foo Fighters)
5 – Ippodromo Snai La Maura, Milan, IT (supporting Foo Fighters)
10 – Pohoda Festival, Trenčín, SL
11 – Décibulles Festival, Neuve-Église, Alsace, FR
12 – Chauffeer Dans La Noirceur, Normandy, FR
17 – Rock Herk, Herk-de-Stag, BE
18 – Dour Festival, Dour, BE
23 – SEI Festival, Brindisi, IT
24 – TV Spenta, Siena, IT
25 – Deershed, Topcliffe, UK
AUGUST
8 – Pop Messe, Brno, CZ
29 – Rock’n’Roll Circus, Sheffield, UK
SEPTEMBER
5 – End of the Road Festival, Larmer Tree Gardens, UK
17-19 – Reeperbahn Festival, Hamburg, DE
OCTOBER
24 – O2 Academy Brixton, London, UK
29 – De Roma, Antwerp, BE
30 – Tivoli, Utrecht, NL
31 – Elysee Montmarte, Paris, FR
NOVEMBER
1 – Stereolux, Nantes FR
3 – Le Grand Mix, Tourcoing, FR
4 – Die Kantine, Cologne, DE
6 – Festsaal Kreuzberg, Berlin, DE
7 – Loppen, Copenhagen, DK
14 – Victoria Warehouse, Manchester, UK
18 – Whelans, Dublin, IE
19 – Whelans, Dublin, IE
24 – Depot, Cardiff, UK
25 – O2 Academy, Bristol, UK
26 – O2 Institute, Birmingham, UK
27 – O2 Academy, Leeds, UK
28 – Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow, UK
DECEMBER
3 – Rock City, Nottingham, UK
Last year, ‘WOOF.’ was given a glowing five-star review from NME and described as “unserious, unhinged and sensational”.
“It’s clear from the get-go that this is not a band who take themselves seriously – you needn’t look further than drummer Johnny ‘Doghead’ Hutchinson’s ever-present latex dog mask,” the review read. “But crucially, they’ve committed to the bit, and it makes the intricate and occasionally miserable post-punk that’s inundated the UK recently seem like a bore in comparison.”
Before the highly anticipated debut album dropped, Fat Dog spoke to NME for their time on The Cover, where keyboardist Chris Hughes reflected on the huge response they get live and explained what makes them stand out.
“What we’ve got as a band is special. I hear things from my friends who are in other groups, and there just seems to be constant animosity elsewhere,” he said.
“We get these moments where everything lines up: sometimes, we all look at each other on stage, and quietly recognise that we’re playing a really good gig. It’s an amazing feeling.”
