Tip: Now you can get music news on Twitter, just follow @oversome, @oversome_rock, or @oversome_hiphop

submitted by Nick Jan 24th 2023 07:00 pm (www.stereogum.com)
Fucked Up have spent two decades reimagining the rock band as a kind of research laboratory. No appreciation of the Toronto collective is complete without a litany of the experiments they’ve undertaken, and I won’t break with tradition here: Fucked Up have been a brawny, elemental hardcore band, as heard on their early 7″ output. They’ve expanded that sound into a kind of proggy chamber-punk, as on The Chemistry Of Common Life. They’ve tackled the double-album rock opera, first with the melodic but muscular David Comes To Life and later with the gleefully all-over-the-place Dose Your Dreams. They’ve made nine EPs inspired by the signs of the Chinese Zodiac. Last year, they released the stomping, sludgy Oberon, veering as close to metal as they ever have. That list covers maybe a quarter of the identities Fucked Up have embodied over the years. Words like “eclectic” and “chameleonic” are inadequate. Fucked Up are one-of-one.
Comments
Post Comment
 
Please use the form below to post your comments on this article. You must be logged in to post comments.
Your Name
Comment
 


Popular News this week
Blur: share “unseen momen...
0 votes - 13 clicks - 0 comments
Ed Sheeran: announces one n...
0 votes - 12 clicks - 0 comments
Madlib: – “REEKYOD” (...
0 votes - 12 clicks - 0 comments
Moby: on apologising for ca...
0 votes - 12 clicks - 0 comments
Arab Strap: – “You’re...
0 votes - 11 clicks - 0 comments
Down: Listen to Kendrick La...
0 votes - 11 clicks - 0 comments
Justice: Album Of The Week:...
0 votes - 11 clicks - 0 comments
Deicide: Frontman Says Mode...
0 votes - 11 clicks - 0 comments
Natasha Bedingfield: to cel...
0 votes - 11 clicks - 0 comments
HEALTH: Jeff Bridges gives ...
0 votes - 11 clicks - 0 comments
Random Statistic
Nick is the most social user, with 32 friends on his/her friends list
New People on Oversome!