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Sep 6, 2024‘WOOF.’ is brilliant, dark, and downright batshit crazy.
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Sep 6, 2024Scream the words and dive head-first into the Fat Dog experience, because ‘Woof.’ is pure, unbridled escapism – just what the world needs right now.
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Sep 13, 2024The group's reputation as London's craziest live act is not overexaggerated -- the fact that they've managed to capture that energy on record is exhilarating. They've bottled the spirit of chaos that has been haunting the masses in these uncertain times, catalyzing it into something that can be collectively expunged.
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UncutNov 19, 2024Woof has to be one of the weirdest debut albums of the year, a record that throws everything at the wall in the conviction that some of it will stick and so what if it doesn’t. [Nov 2024, p.34]
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Sep 6, 2024WOOF charms mainly by the dint of its barefaced cheek: a record like this has been long overdue, especially since the pandemic.
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Sep 6, 2024It scrambles the brain, leaves the heart feeling empty, but compels the body to move. Woof scratches that primal itch. It's the sound of a society unraveling, and Fat Dog has captured it.
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Sep 6, 2024WOOF. is an intense joy, and absolute in establishing Fat Dog. It can, however, hit the same notes throughout.
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Sep 6, 2024For all its colour and intensity, there’s breadth here, too.
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Sep 10, 2024WOOF. is a debut that serves its main purposes, establishing Fat Dog as a band to watch and making some music for folks to lose their minds to.
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Sep 6, 2024Sometimes, it leans too far into its theatricality to be the barreling, hedonistic music it gestures toward. But at its best, Fat Dog is a circus.
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Sep 9, 2024By now there’s no doubting that Fat Dog are a blindingly fun prospect, and there’s plenty of potential contained within Woof, and it’s no surprise that they’ve garnered such a following in such a short space of time.
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Record CollectorSep 10, 2024Woof. is almost overwhelmingly of the moment, yet destined to stick around. [Oct 2024, p.101]
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Sep 10, 2024WOOF is a lot. Even with the brief breaks, it’s a record that feels like it’s on maximum all the time. Fat Dog’s mantra seems to be maximum volume, attitude, and speed. Fortunately, they are charming and catchy enough to pull it off.
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MojoSep 6, 2024As with FWF, it’s hard to discern any redemptive purpose other than the release of darker energies, but on that score Wither’s Suicide-esque pulse, All The Same’s filthy, Decius-style hi-NRG and Running’s synth-bashing rush best hit FD’s target. [Oct 2024, p.86]
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Sep 6, 2024Forgive Woof, then, for sounding a little trite. Frontman Joe Love has an entertaining, to-the-point lyrical style.
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Sep 12, 2024Unfortunately, Fat Dog’s debut slumps right in that tepid puddle, weighed down by gimmicks, cheap irony, and unearned mythology. Rather than stoking rapture or rage, it prods with hollow indifference. More a whimper than a woof.