The Top 30 Albums Of 2019 (So Far): Fat White Family – 'Serfs Up!'

1 July 2019 | 1:50 pm | Sam Wall

'The Music' team on the albums you need to hear from 2019.

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"Serfs Up! adds polish to their menace." – Sam Wall

Fat White Family have always been difficult to look away from, though in the past the attention they’ve attracted has often felt more like rubbernecking than genuine fascination. At their best, they toed a razor-fine line between danger and outright destruction. The rest of the time they were busy digging their own graves.

What an awesome surprise then that instead of going up “in a puff of brown smoke”, Fat White Family turned out one of the year’s most ambitious records. Serfs Up! adds polish to their menace, taking tricks from Gregorian chant, white reggae, glam, Wham! and everything in between in the process.

Dash the henge.


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