TRACK: Fat White Family- Touch The Leather

There's always been a weird sex thing that goes on in Noise Rock. Maybe it's because the fuzzy, overdriven guitars lend themselves nicely to filth, maybe it's because unusual genres of music attract unusual people and interests. For whatever reason, I always figured that since The Stooges released Dirt, if you wanted to be a Noise Rock band you had to make at least one song about kinky sex.

London Noise-Perverts Fat White Family seem to be trying to one up this trend since there brilliantly seedy upcoming single "Touch The Leather" now has an even seedier counterpart in the 'Redux Edition' of the music video. The blown out guitars and screamed vocals have been switched for a steady clicking glockenspiel while frontman Lias Saoudi murmurs his lyrics of pure filth like they where pillow talk from your nightmares. Also another member of the band jumps around with his trousers down in slow motion, so yeah, be warned.

Here's both versions, but if you've only got three and a half minutes spare in your day, I'd recommend the single version:

Touch The Leather is out on 7" in early March from Hate Hate Hate Records. It's available now on preorder from Rough Trade.

Ps. Also out now on Hate Hate Hate, for FREE, is surf-rock-gone-brilliantly-awry band the Wytches' incredible Gravedweller EP. It's definately worth a listen, and like I said, it's free, so get it here.