South-London based post-punk band Famous will release their debut album Party Album on 11 October via untitled (recs). Party Album was mainly recorded at The Kink’s old studio Konk in Crouch End, north London. Coming to prominence as a part of the celebrated Brixton Windmill scene alongside Black Country, New Road and Black Midi, the group quickly drew recognition for its boundary-pushing, post- post-punk sound. Over the course of two wildly varied and acclaimed EPs, 2019’s England and 2021’s The Valley, shape-shifting London outfit Famous has forged its own inimitable sound. A sound that subverts pop’s Gospels. A barrage of halcyon melodies, despondent electronics jutting against warming acoustics, and scintillating song structure, all this the singular creative vision of Jack Merrett — Famous’ singer, lyricist, core songwriter and only consistent member — that finds convulsively spectacular expression in their forthcoming debut album, Party Album.
This debut LP, is the record Famous has been threatening to make for eight years – an album that Merrett intimates is a lot like Famous itself, “a long coming-of-age drama that always threatens to end but goes on forever”. Written over the course of two years and beginning life as a set of demos that saw Merrett accompany himself on the Fender Rhodes, the group spoke initially of making a more traditional record, the work-in-progress gradually became hijacked by their thirst for experimentation. Merrett recalls, “what’s funny is we had this idea of making this very authentic rock record. We were constantly talking about how we wanted to make a classic rock record. A stadium-ready classic rock record. But yeah – it just became different over time”.