Over the course of two wildly varied and acclaimed EPs, 2019’s England and 2021’s The Valley, shape-shifting London outfit Famous has forged its own inimitable sound. A sound that subverts pop’s Gospels. A barrage of halcyon melodies, despondent electronics jutting against warming acoustics, and scintillating song structure, all this the singular creative vision of Jack Merrett — Famous’ singer, lyricist, core songwriter and only consistent member — that finds convulsively spectacular expression in their debut album, Party Album.

Coming to prominence as a part of the celebrated South-London Brixton Windmill scene alongside Black Country, New Road and Black Midi, the group quickly drew recognition for its boundary-pushing, post- post-punk sound with Merrett at the helm pronouncing mythic, Jim Morrison-esque monikers like “The King of the Dark Time”. From scattered cultural references of BoJack Horseman episodes to the Book of Revelation, and playing rooftop concerts in London to nobody but the twilight sky, it all laid the suspicion that Famous was either constructing or destroying something huge. Ultimately both were true.