“F*cked Up return with the sprawling, genre-bending Dose Your Dreams”
“It’s been four long years since Fucked Up’s last studio album, ‘Glass Boys’ – enough time, you might say, for a thorough reinvention. The Toronto six-piece’s welcome return, ‘Dose Your Dreams’, is defined by an intriguing embrace of the experimental, with this elaborate double record adding psychedelia, digital hardcore and, yes, doo-wop to the band’s already-cacophonous wall of noise. “Maximalis”
“The art-hardcore band’s fifth album is a dynamic departure for the group, a long, psychedelic, concept-heavy odyssey that dips into many genres along the way.”
“More than 17 years, and now five albums deep, Fucked Up’s enigmatic presence shouldn’t surprise anymore but here they are again as a punk band playing rock. Or is it a hardcore band playing krautrock? Or a rock band locking into a psychedelic groove? Born from Toronto’s hardcore battlegrounds but fuelled by a fierce punk determinism, they’ve survived, and thrived, all these years by being wilfull”
“The Toronto punks embark on an adventurous odyssey that detours into AOR rock”
