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Fat Goth return with “One Hundred Percent Suave”!
"You'll be none the wiser by the end of it all, but much richer for stumbling in to Fat Goth's odd little universe."
- Kerrang! Magazine
Fat Goth return with their third album, One Hundred Percent Suave, set for release on 12th May 2014 via Hefty Dafty. Following on from where their last album Stud left us, One Hundred Percent Suave explores the theme of sex and its pros and cons but, in the band’s trademark tongue-in-cheek, uncompromising style.
Kerrang! have already got their hands on album track “Sweet Mister Scary”, which they streamed exclusively on their website yesterday.
You can download the track for free via Kerrang's SoundCloud page.
"Sweet Mister Scary" is also available via Fat Goth's Official SoundCloud page.
“If Stud is the overweight, unhygienic, eye contact-avoiding weirdo sitting in darkest corners of the nightclub, One Hundred Percent Suave is the pilled-up, pint-downing, football-chanting nightmare throwing it down on the dance floor and bothering all the females in his general vicinity,” explains frontman Fraser Stewart. “Regardless, the overwhelming self-loathing and bottomless depression are traits both characters share in equal measure.” Despite Fraser’s natural self-deprecating tone, One Hundred Percent Suave is a massive man-sized slab of fun, unadulterated rock that captures Mike Patton’s crooner moments (‘*disclaimer’, ‘Caligynephobia), Queens of the Stone Age and The Jesus Lizard’s signature tight rhythm section (‘Sweet Mister Scary’) and hectic, heart-stopping riffs (‘Class A’). In fact, The Jesus Lizard’s David Yow created the artwork for One Hundred Percent Suave. The band’s dark, twisted, snarling underbelly emerges as the album progresses though, especially on tracks like ‘Lower Pleasance’ and the climactic ‘The Stevie Nicks Method’.
The last few years have seen the Dundee based three piece successfully rise from local underdogs to rock fan favourites appealing to all the losers, freaks, weirdos out there looking for proper meaty, ball hair raising rock. Recently, they’ve found themselves the subject of Kerrang’s legendary Pandora strip twice, featured in the magazine and received stellar reviews. Rock Sound, Terrorizer, Q, Metal Hammer, Artrocker and Drowned in Sound are also amongst those who’ve highlighted the band’s humorous, brazen style. This flurry of praise led them to be nominated for a Scottish Alternative Music Award in 2013 (and again this year) and grace the stages of many a UK festival (T in the Park’s BBC Introducing Stage, Arctangent, Belladrum, Go North, Wickerman) and act as main support to Torche and the legendary NoMeansNo.
Despite their success, Fraser, Kevin and Mark are happy just to continue to create music that pleases them, and knowing there are people out there that ‘get’ them - “three chums with a shared enthusiasm for interesting and entertaining rock music,” as Fraser puts it. Scratch a little deeper though and they’d say that “Mark is the relentless careerist, Kevin is the eternal teenager and only Fraser knows where the bodies are buried.” Three incredibly talented odd bods from Dundee - what’s not to love?
One Hundred Percent Suave is released on 12th May 2014 via Hefty Dafty with support from Creative Scotland.