Delilah Holliday Announces Debut Solo Album ‘Fat Cat’, Releases Single ‘Formless’

Delilah Holliday has detailed her debut solo album, Fat Cat, out August 28 on One Little Independent Records. Its first single, “Formless,” is available now, giving shape to a record she describes as “new wave recession-pop.”

Holliday, best known for leading punk band Skinny Girl Diet, wrote the album during a period of acute grief. Pregnant and navigating chronic mental illness, she lost her uncle Simon — a mentor she says made her a musician — her Nana, a Windrush generation emigrant from Jamaica, and, one month later, her child. Those losses became the album’s emotional spine.

“‘Formless’ is a sonic state of psychological and spiritual disintegration, introducing the inability to control external power structures versus the internal need to find meaning,” Holliday explains. The project uses personal collapse to examine broader social conditions. “I wanted to transform my personal tragedy into a social commentary, using individual pain to examine collective struggle and inequality, as well as the search for faith, meaning, and survival.”

Across its eleven tracks — among them “Dream in Colour,” “God Willing,” and the title track — Fat Cat fuses intimate bereavement with a critique of capitalist systems one is simply born into. The full tracklist reads: “Fat Cat,” “Loop 7,” “Formless,” “Dream in Colour,” “Dred,” “God Willing,” “Free State,” “Odyssey,” “