It'll be booming beats, phat grooves and feel-good vibes a plenty when Fat Freddy's Drop hits Brewers Field in Mount Maunganui on December 29.

And there's more good news for Fat Freddy's fans – this upcoming national tour is also a celebration of the Wellington band's fourth studio album BAYS, which is set for release this October.

Wellington seven-piece dub/reggae band Fat Freddy's Drop will play Brewers Field in Mount Maunganui on Tuesday, December 29. Photo: Harry A'Court/Supplied.

Fat Freddy's vocalist Joe Dukie says the nine-track LP exudes the confidence of a band truly comfortable in their own skin.

'It's been a more creative process writing this album in the studio rather than recording songs which have been well road-tested,” says Joe.

BAYS was recorded at the band's BAYS Studio in Wellington, which was previously an HMV vinyl pressing plant back in the 1950s.

It was predominantly written in the studio and draws on the lexicon of genres that have come to epitomize the bands' sound.

It opens with the slow burn funk of ‘Wairunga Blues' before journeying through a hybrid of reggae and jazz with techno rhythms, underpinning Fat Freddy's signature horns and Joe's soulful and introspective vocal, before finally arriving on the crooked blues jam of ‘Novak'.

BAYS follows in the wake of Fat Freddy's successful 2013 album Blackbird,which sold over 200,000 copies worldwide.

The worldwide BAYS album tour will kick off at a sold-out Auckland Town Hall show on October 24, and then Fat Freddy's will head off to Europe for shows throughout November.

If you can't make the Mount Maunganui show, you can catch Fat Freddy's Drop in the Coromandel at the Coroglen Tavern on Wednesday, December 30, and then at Big Top in Whangamata on Thursday, December 31.

Fat Freddy's Drop New Zealand Summer Tour hits Brewers Field in Mount Manganui on December 29. Presale tickets go on sale from 12pm on September 10 and are available via Ticketmaster.