Fool's Mate is the debut solo album by Peter Hammill of progressive rock band Van der Graaf Generator.

Fool's Mate includes one of Hammill's most celebrated love songs, "Vision", which he still performs in concert.

Fool's Mate is a collection of songs written over four years (from 1967 through 1971) which fell into a lighter, more mellow vein than that of Hammill's band Van der Graaf Generator.

[1] The entire album was recorded in a single two-day session at Trident Studios, in between Van der Graaf Generator tour dates.

[citation needed] Paul Stump, in his History of Progressive Rock, called Fool's Mate "a revamped corpus of pre-Van der Graaf Generator and pre-university songs of plumptious psychedelic pop hedging its bets between Syd Barrett and Al Stewart."