Fat Dog Announce Second Album “Cancel Me (I’m Tired)” and Share Riotous Title Track
London seven-piece Fat Dog have announced their second studio album, “Cancel Me (I’m Tired), ” due October 2 via Domino Records, alongside the release of the album’s title track and video. The single — the second preview of the record after May’s “Go Fuck Urself” — comes with a clip directed by James Winstanley, following the band as they try to avoid getting cancelled on a night out through London’s Soho.
Frontman and chief songwriter Joe Love describes the track as inspired by John Lennon’s “How Do You Sleep, ” filtered through a vision of what Anatolian rock experimentalists Altın Gün would sound like if besieged by a thumping club beat. The song opens with a sardonic declaration — “If you wanna cancel me / Then go ahead and do it please” — and is, in the band’s own words, the sound of what happens when people push your buttons and your buttons start pushing back. The album was produced by Oli Bayston (Kelly Lee Owens, Alexis Taylor, mary in the junkyard), who has pulled the band’s sound further toward straight-up electronic and rave territory. Its ten tracks blend electro-pop anthems, cascading rave bangers, bombastic strings, cowboy-tinged interludes and swirling psychedelia, with lyrics that take in addiction, family, love, artificial intelligence and extraterrestrial life.
The record follows debut album “WOOF.” (2024), which NME awarded five stars, calling the band “unserious, unhinged and sensational, ” and whose Glastonbury 2025 set The Times named the best show of the weekend. This week, Fat Dog open three stadium dates for Foo Fighters in Berlin, Vienna and Milan before launching their own headline UK and European tour in late October, kicking off October 24 at O2 Academy Brixton in London. Their only confirmed Spanish date is September 4 at PHE Festival in Tenerife.
