Palookaville by Fatboy Slim

Palookaville is Fatboy Slim's fourth studio album, out on Skint in Britain on 4 October 2004 and on Astralwerks in the US a day later, and it finds Norman Cook easing off the big-beat stomp that made his name. The magpie instincts are still there, samples scavenged from all over and bolted onto pop hooks, but the sound is looser and odder, less interested in blowing the roof off than in wandering somewhere stranger. "Wonderful Night" is the moment it remembers how to party.

It didn't do the business of his earlier records, which was put down to dance music losing its grip and to the album's more obscure bent, but it still earned a Grammy nomination for Best Electronic/Dance Album in 2006. It also turned out to be the final Fatboy Slim studio album: asked in 2019 whether another was coming, Cook said probably not.

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