This they have achieved with Serfs Up!, which feels like a pop album you might slap on as the world is about to end or you’ve just learned Brexit has been pushed back to 2020. We thought – ‘let’s do something elegant or articulate’.” “We’d done the heroin drone thing – love songs about love letters from Hitler to Goebbels, the Harold Shipman stuff.

“We wanted to make something more pop,” says Saoudi. By the end of the Songs For Our Mothers tour, Saul had left and nobody could quite remember if he’d quit or got the sack. As the two songwriters in the band, Saoudi and the guitarist have a bit of a Pete Doherty-Carl Barât dynamic. Lias and Nathan also mended bridges with the semi-estranged Adamczewski. Serfs Up!: Fat White Family are at their best frequently on their third album Our last record wasn’t the most palatable commercial prospect. Get away from all the bullshit and distractions that come with being a well-known band. “Our plan was to get out of the city, establish a heroin-free zone. The idea was to keep their heads down, stay away from drugs, start over. Saoudi and his brother moved out of London and rented a terrace house in Sheffield, on the advice of their new label Domino. Either Fat White Family faded away or they came back radically changed. Half of the group had really serious heroin problems.” “We were in such a bad place,” reflects Saoudi.

It was a glowering, disgruntled collection that seemed to actively wanted to be disliked (one song is called Lebensraum another, Duce, revealed an obsession with Mussolini). This self-devouring anger reached its apotheosis on their previous album, 2016’s Songs For Our Mothers. What was I supposed to do? You want to slap everyone around the face.” Anger Gone to school, done really well in my A-levels, gone to university. “When we started I had this burning rage,” says Saoudi, who began the band in Peckham, London with his brother Nathan – the siblings are of Algerian heritage – and guitarist Saul Adamczewski.

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