Songs for Our Mothers

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Songs for Our Mothers
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Studio album by
Fat White Family
Released22 January 2016 (2016-01-22)
Genre Post-punk
Length46:19
Label Fat Possum
Fat White Family chronology
Champagne Holocaust
(2013)		Songs for Our Mothers
(2016)		 Serfs Up!
(2019)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic? 6.1/10 [1]
Metacritic 63/100 [2]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
The Irish Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Mojo Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [6]
NME 4/5 [7]
The Observer Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [8]
Pitchfork 6.3/10 [9]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [10]
Record Collector Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [11]
Uncut 6/10 [12]

Songs for Our Mothers is the second studio album by British post-punk band Fat White Family. It was released in January 2016 under Fat Possum Records.

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Whitest Boy on the Beach"4:53
2."Satisfied"3:40
3."Love Is the Crack"4:19
4."Duce"6:40
5."Lebensraum"2:46
6."Hits Hits Hits"3:40
7."Tinfoil Deathstar"3:59
8."When Shipman Decides"3:43
9."We Must Learn to Rise"7:10
10."Goodbye Goebbels"5:29

Charts

Chart (2016)Peak
position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [13] 119
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [14] 159
French Albums (SNEP) [15] 153
UK Albums (OCC) [16] 61

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