Wo Fat Announce New LP and First Three Album Reissues
Texas fuzz forerunners Wo Fat made their debut on Ripple Music with Midnight Cometh (review here), in 2016, following it with a rework of 2015’s Live Juju at Freak Valley (review here) as Live Juju at Freak Valley… and Beyond! in 2017. Since then the band has focused on playing live which… well. Okay.
You’ll note the self-titled Funkadelic reference in their bio info below. That’s no accident, as the band have always had that edge going back to their beginnings. And if you’re newer to their work, you’ll get the chance to find out for yourself as Ripple will oversee reissues of Wo Fat‘s first three records in addition to releasing their next full-length next Fall. Really guys, no need to wait. The sooner the better. Unless, you know, you want to promote it on a stage or anything.
It’s good news one way or the other, so have at it:
Texas psychedelic doom veterans WO FAT announce new album on Ripple Music; first three records to be available for the first time in the US!
Chief purveyors of Texas-sized psychedelic doom WO FAT once again team up with Ripple Music for the upcoming release of their awaited seventh studio album — and followup to 2017’s acclaimed ‘Midnight Cometh’ — next year. Ripple Music is also set to reissue the trio’s first three albums in the coming months, making these long out-of-print classics available to North American fans for the very first time.
Over the course of a sonic odyssey which spans six studio albums, one live recording and two splits, Texas’ very own psychedelic doom mongers WO FAT have stayed true to the deep, dark blues that wail from within and have continually infused their riffs with primal grooves. Having secured their legendary status within the stoner rock community by appearing on much coveted bills at Roadburn, Desertfest, Freak Valley Festival, Hellfest and Psycho Las Vegas, their latest release and collaboration with Ripple Music, ‘Live Juju: Freak Valley’ seemed to be the perfect follow-up to their critically acclaimed 2017 album ‘Midnight Cometh’.
While WO FAT have just confirmed the release of their seventh full-length in the fall of 2021, Ripple Music will repress the band’s long out-of-print Nasoni Records albums from days past, starting with ‘Psychedelonaut’ (2009) in the spring of 2021, followed by ‘The Gathering Dark’ (2006) and ‘Noche Del Chupacabra’ (2011) in 2022. All upcoming reissues will be available on black vinyl and limited edition colored vinyl with new liner notes, for the first time ever to North American fans.
With voodoo drums beating and molten blues-tempered waves of guitar riffery, they are carrying on the WO FAT tradition of keeping things heavy and fuzzy, but also groovy, which, all too often, is a missing element in much modern heavy music. You can hear the echoes of field hollers and that oft forgotten “way back yonder funk” that fuel the fire that burns deep in the swamp at the witching hour. You can feel the rush of living on the edge and glimpse a phantasmal Coltrane in your peripheral vision as they careen through improvisational jams. And all this with an unrelenting metal heaviness underscoring apocalyptic lyrics that conjure visions of the end of an age, and black midnight bargains and the consequences reaped. While Wo Fat may be speaking a familiar language to the apostles of the riff, there isn’t anyone that sounds quite like them.
WO FAT is:
Kent Stump – guitar, vocals
Michael Walter – drums
Zack Busby – bass
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