Fat Dog’s Cancel Me (I’m Tired) Shows a Band Tired of the World
Theodora Gatsacos
Writer
October 7, 2026
South London-based band Fat Dog returns with their second album, Cancel Me (I’m Tired). The septet, consisting of Joe Love, Chris Hughes, Morgan Wallace, Ellis Dickson, Michael Dunlop, Dillon Harrison, and Jed Bevington, recently opened for Foo Fighters and continue to push their unique, modern, and experimental rock sound to listeners while building on their recent momentum.
Go Fuck Urself, Cancel Me (I’m Tired), Shit Love, Call It What You Want, and Heart of Darkness were released as pre-release singles, with each song, except Shit Love, which received a visualizer, being given a music video. Go Fuck Urself, a song about self-escapism, shows the band performing in a wrestling ring as the crowd leaves mid-performance, with frontman Joe Love telling them, “Go Fuck Urself.”
Cancel Me (I’m Tired), the album’s namesake, is filmed from the first-person perspective of someone spending their day and night attending a Fat Dog concert and drinking. The song discusses burnout, exhaustion, and the desire to escape, with lyrics showing the band’s consideration to “Put my feet up for a bit, Let AI write a hit, I’m better dead and gone, This shit is getting old.” With the group constantly touring, their label, Domino, has explained the song and album with the statement, “The reason that they want you to cancel them is that they’ve been around the world and they’re tired.”
Call It What You Want’s music video takes a simpler approach, showing footage from one of the group’s live performances of the track. Meanwhile, Heart of Darkness’ video depicts an actor portraying North Korean leader Kim Jong Un doing karaoke, singing along to the song, and eventually passing out from drinking too much.
As for the new songs, the album’s chaotic intro, Smile and Wave, explores staying calm under stressful circumstances, setting the stage for the motifs of stress, escapism, and burnout that run throughout the record. Snakes, the only track not labeled explicit, brings a mellow, country-rock sound to the album, creating a sense of longing, reflection, and wanting to get away.
Bad Dog returns the album to its chaotic sound. Though Love repeatedly sings, “I’m a bad dog, I’m a real bad dog,” the album’s cover offers an amusing juxtaposition: a white dog with angel wings. Closing out Cancel Me (I’m Tired) is Aliens, another mellow track that brings back the loneliness and sense of longing from Snakes, with Love begging, “Won’t you come and knock for me, Come and make me smile?” As the album fades into a 30-second instrumental featuring Morgan Wallace’s saxophone, it leaves the listener with room to reflect on what the band has conveyed throughout the record.
Overall, Cancel Me (I’m Tired) is an album audiences across the UK, Europe, and Australia can look forward to experiencing live as the group embarks on another tour throughout 2026–2027. Though the album touches on hypocrisy, loneliness, current topics, and burnout, Fat Dog uses humor to deflect from these experiences while still making their point.
The group continues to work hard to produce and promote music that connects with fans around the globe. With this being only their sophomore album, Fat Dog has already built an audience that can’t get enough of them. They might be tired of the world, but the world definitely isn’t tired of them.
Edited by: Stephanie Rodriguez
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