Breaking Into Aldi

Album: Single release only (2016)
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Songfacts®:

  • This song was written by Fat White Family singer Lias Saoudi with Sean Lennon, Black Lips vocalist Cole Alexander, and Alexander's girlfriend, K Holes saxophonist Zumi Roscow. The song namechecks the German discount supermarket chain Aldi.
  • Lias Saoudi said of the track:

    "This song is a post apocalyptic vision of a barely united United Kingdom bereft of quality German supermarkets and their insipid low prices; 'Breaking Into Aldi' is the anthem that never was, a call to arms for the senselessness of our future futility, an overcrowded shadow begging for a rerun, a sell out by sell-outs for sell-outs.

    This Fat Whites collaboration with Cole Alexander of Black Lips, Sean Lennon and Zumi Roscow of K Holes is by all intents and purposes the sound of hopelessness attempting to bleed itself dry."

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