You are not dead yet

"A thing that we struggled with for a while was honesty and what's real; we wanted to pick the name of our album to be something true, not just like ooh fucking awesome sauce we are the best, because we might not be the best. So we decided "You Are Going to Die", 'cause we all are going to die. It's the only true thing we know."

Guinea fowl in the headlights

Perhaps this striving for certainty and hard facts is something the band hankers after as their group self-admittedly shared with us that they are incredibly indecisive and change their minds more often than their socks, from everything from music to designing their website, to what type of sandwich to have for lunch (okay, I made that last one up, but it's probably true). "We change our ideas like every single day - you should have seen us try to plan our website, we had like six people involved with six different ideas and those ideas would change every day. We couldn't decide what we liked."

And when asked what type of animal would best characterise the group they picked a guinea fowl in the headlights. "Probably a very indecisive animal, like a guinea fowl, stuck in the middle of a road with a car coming towards it, running backwards and forwards not sure if it should go this way or that way." That manic headless chicken (guinea fowl) energy makes PH Fat what it is, though, and I can't imagine the band any other way.

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Social experimentation

Luckily for fans, they eventually managed to come to consensus and got their shit together when it came to their EP and are releasing six tracks for free download today, 20 February. Download the EP here. Fans will also have the option of donating money to the group of whatever value they deem the EP is worth. "It will be cool to check what value people would give our stuff. I think it's a kind of an experiment for us; it's cool as either way our music gets out there, we win either way. It's a sort of a social experiment - we're giving it away in a very business-like way."

And what can we expect from this hot new EP? "It's a lot more selfish, well actually it's not more selfish it's exactly the same amount of selfishness as the last album. With the first album no one is expecting anything from you, but with the second one people always have expectations. The closer we are to getting it done the better it is getting - we're actually pretty confident that people will enjoy it. It's the typically more serious second album. Well, not more serious, just darker. We all just got a little more comfortable with ourselves."

With a cracker of a promotional tour planned from Grahamstown to the Drakensberg and a diverse line-up of supporting bands, including Beach Party and The Frown, this is an album launch party you should punish yourself if you miss. Check the full tour line-up here.

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