Fucked Up have signed to Merge Records and announced their upcoming double album, Dose Your Dreams, will be released October 5.
The news doesn’t come as a huge surprise. Recently, guitarist Mike Haliechuk aka 10,000 Marbles, announced the band’s departure from Matador, simply saying, “it’s over,” when asked during an interview whether the group’s time with the label had come to a close.
In addition to announcing their new partnership with Merge and their new double album, Fucked Up has released their lead single, “Raise Your Voice Joyce,” and a forthcoming tour, which kicks off August 3 in London, UK, and runs through December 12 in Vancouver, BC.
The new album marks the follow-up to Glass Boys (2014) and features a solid 18 tracks. According to Consequence of Sound, Via Facebook, Fucked Up says of the release, “This record took two years to make. It has 18 songs, its long, its angry and its beautiful and all that shit.”
Owen Pallet (Arcade Fire) says of the new record, “I was sent an unfinished version of Dose Your Dreams so that I might contribute string parts. I couldn’t stop listening to the rough mixes I received. A friend asked me how the record was. I replied, ‘My God, Fucked Up have made their Screamadelica.’
He goes on to say, “And psych-rock-groove it is. The drums mixed wide, propensity for drones, for delay pedal, for repetition, groove. The politics and aesthetics of hardcore married to an ‘open format’ approach to genre. Elements of doo-wop, krautrock, groove, digital hardcore.”
Listen to Fucked Up’s “Raise Your Voice Joyce,” off Dose Your Dreams below.
Dose Your Dreams Tracklist:
01. None of Your Business Man
02. Raise Your Voice Joyce
03. Tell Me What You See
04. Normal People
05. Torch to Light
06. Talking Pictures
07. House of Keys
08. Dose Your Dreams
09. Living in a Simulation
10. I Don’t Wanna Live in this World Anymore
11. How to Die Happy
12. Two I’s Closed
13. The One I Want Will Come For Me
14. Mechanical Bull
15. Accelerate
16. Came Down Wrong
17. Love Is An Island in the Sea
18. Joy Stops Time
Fucked Up 2018 Tour Dates:
08/03 – London, UK @ Hangar
08/04 – Malaga, ES @ CanelaParty
09/14 – Victoria, BC @ Rifflandia Festival
10/19 – Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern
11/03 – Ottawa, ON @ The 27 Club
11/04 – Montreal, QC @ La Sala Rossa
11/05 – Burlington, VT @ ArtsRiot
11/06 – Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall
11/08 – Brooklyn, NY @ Market Hall
11/09 – Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church
11/10 – Washington, DC @ Rock & Roll Hotel
11/11 – Raleigh, NC @ Kings
11/12 – Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade
11/13 – Nashville, TN @ The High Watt
12/04 – Phoenix, AZ @ The Crescent Ballroom
12/05 – San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar
12/06 – Los Angeles, CA @ Echoplex
12/07 – Pomona, CA @ The Glass House
12/08 – Berkeley, CA @ Cornerstone
12/10 – Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
12/11 – Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile
12/12 – Vancouver, BC @ Fox Cabaret
Photo Credit: Raymond Flotat
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