"oberon"
Year. 2022
Label: Tankcrimes
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 5
Time: 24 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Prog Punk
"one day"
Year: 2023
Label: none
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 10
Time: 40 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Prog Punk
Year: 2021
Country: Canada
City: Toronto
Label: Tankcrimes
Format: 2 x CD
Tracks: 4
Time: 94 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Prog Punk
If you thought David Comes to Life was as epic as punk could get, Dose Your Dreams proved you wrong. If you then thought Dreams was the top of the prog-punk mountain, you were wrong again. Fucked Up’s newest entry in their zodiac series (until now, a series of extended 12-inch maxi-singles), Year of the Horse is four full sides of psychedelic epic punk story telling. As with all the Fucked Up concept records, the plot is complex and the record comes with a libretto that fills you in, ala the classic Italian operas. Very roughly speaking, the album is about a horse named Perceval that breaks free from the clutches of death and confronts the forces of the universe itself, other mystical horses and witches. Got that? No? That’s fine.
This record is crafted to be massive and not just sonic chewing gum (though simple, thumbs nappers are cool too) and to that end, it requires study and repeat listens to “fully “ grasp- and you won’t ever fully grasp it because with Fucked Up’s more recent King Crimson/Pink Floydian adventures, the record is just ambiguous enough to raise questions instead of fully answering them.
What’s particularly neat here is that record masterminds Mike Haliechuk and Jonah Falco have forged their most diverse and chameleon-onic sound bed to date. This record flips from Integrity style smashing to Metallica thrashing to Medieval lute play to robo-soul to goth Morricone to Sleep homage to something that sounds like slowed down trip hop, all in one continuous bleeding journey. The dozen plus guests here add to the sonic warp-sphere making this album a galaxy unto its own, and it also makes it a very unpredictable record. There is the risk of the record being too disjointed or too hoity-toity, but that never seems to happen. Why? Maybe the band stays on a theme just long enough before jumping to the next toadstool. Or, maybe it’s because every time the record approaches the indulgence of the worst of ‘70s prog, long running vocalist Damian Abraham comes in and smashes the thing back to earth, as aided by straight up hardcore guitar pummeling.
The album sounds like it wasn’t necessarily planned in advance. Rather, it seems that as the crew kept stacking ideas on top of each other, more and more ideas grew. That can result in a real mess of a record, or, as with records like Exile on Main Street or London Calling, it can result in something truly special when the band is in the zone. Now in their 20th year, Fucked Up is still in the zone (*Review by John Gentile ).
"dose your dreams"
Year: 2018
Label: Merge
Format: 2 x LP
Tracks: 18
Time: 70 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Prog Punk
"year of the snake"
Year: 2017
Label: Tankcrimes
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 2
Time: 30 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Prog Punk
"year of the dragon"
Year: 2014
Label: Tankcrimes
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 5
Time: 52 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Prog Punk
Year: 2014
Label: Matador
Format: CD, 2 x LP
Tracks: 10
Time: 42 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Prog Punk
"year of the tiger"
Year: 2012
Label: Matador
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 2
Time: 40 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Prog Punk
"david comes to life"
Year: 2011
Label: Matador
Format: CD, 2 x LP
Tracks: 18
Time: 77 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Prog Punk
David Comes to Life is the third studio album by Canadian hardcore punk band Fucked Up. It was released on June 7, 2011 in North America and June 6, 2011 elsewhere on Matador Records in CD and double LP formats. David Comes to Life is an 18-song epic in four acts. It became Fucked Up's first charting album in the United States ranking at number 83 on the Billboard 200.
The album is a rock opera set in 1970s and 1980s England. The story involves unreliable narrators and meta-narrative plot devices. Drummer Jonah Falco described the album as a love story between the title character David and a girl named Veronica.
"year of the ox"
Year: 2010
Label: Merge
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 2
Time: 25 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Prog Punk
"the chemistry of common life"
Year: 2008
Label: Matador
Format: CD, 2 x LP
Tracks: 11
Time: 52 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Prog Punk
The Chemistry of Common Life is the second full-length studio album by Canadian hardcore punk band Fucked Up. It was released on October 7, 2008 on Matador Records in CD and double LP formats and on Welfare Records in Reel-to-reel Audio Tapes. The statement on the label's site describes it as "an expansive epic about the mysteries of birth, death, and the origins of life (and re-living)".
The album is named after a book by James F. W. Johnston, which (among other things) describes hallucinogenic properties of mushrooms and plants. The title for the track "The Peaceable Kingdom" is taken from a famous painting by American folk-painter Edward Hicks. The cover art depicts the phenomenon of Manhattanhenge. The album won the 2009 Polaris Music Prize.
Year: 2006
Label: Jaded Tree
Format: CD, 2 x LP
Tracks: 13
Time: 45 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Prog Punk
"year of the dog"
Year: 2006
Label: Blocks
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 3
Time: 30 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Prog Punk