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Feb 4, 2016Though murky mixing obscures their incendiary songs, the overall mood of disquiet and anxiety is potent (perhaps prescient?). If only they could shape it into something with more of a jolt.
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Jan 25, 2016What they’re trying to say isn’t always clear--are they sixth-form shock merchants or more profound?--but the five-piece most impress at their least confrontational.
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Jan 21, 2016Whatever the album is trying to do--provoke, confront, horrify--it only partially achieves it.
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Q MagazineJan 19, 2016The unruly palette endures throughout, with dirges, ersatz country and cracked pop variously suggesting Clinic, Throbbing Gristle and Blackpool cults Ceramic Hobs. Lyrically, trigger warnings may be necessary. [Feb 2016, p.110]
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UncutJan 19, 2016As a musical representation of physical and mental decline, it is morbidly compelling. But in the wrong mood, it's a bit of a trudge. [Feb 2016, p.75]
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Feb 3, 2016Songs for Our Mothers indicates Fat White Family still want to annoy you, but they're only going to put real effort into it for so long.
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Jan 22, 2016The Fat Whites’ second album is, then, something of a mixed bag, but the most offensive thing about it is not the lyrical content, it’s the fact that the band doesn’t seem to have the courage of its convictions and say what it means in an intelligible manner. Their edge has been knocked off in a cloud of reverb.
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Jan 22, 2016Sadly, it’s a plodding, semi-acoustic dirge of little note, while When Shipman Decides--about homicidal doctor Harold--also fails to live up to the shock factor of its title. It makes for a mostly meretricious, self-important record with delusions of grandeur.