David Comes To Life
Toronto's Fucked Up continue their outsized ambition with a lengthy rock opera featuring a twisted storyline and epic guitar-driven songs.
When Toronto’s biggest and best hardcore band decided to call itself Fucked Up, it was to alienate prospective listeners who probably weren’t going to like its thorny, dense, politically radical music anyway. But neither Fucked Up nor pop culture is what it was when the band started in the early ’00s. Not only did…
And while hardcore aficionados will strive for redemption through [a]Fucked Up[/a]’s operatic third full-length, they’ll quickly learn that while this offering maintains the group’s bilious urgency, the Torontonian outfit are not the musicians we met back in 2008.
Much like Psychedelic Horseshit, Bitch Magnet or Anal Cunt, Fucked Up is one of those bands I can't really discuss with my mother. Next time we chat, and she asks if I've written about anything interesting lately, I can't tell her I reviewed the new Fucked Up record. Nothing against her, she's a very sweet and good-natured woman, but she can't wrap her head around this kind of stuff. She didn't even listen to the Cat Power album I bought her, so even if Fucked Up had a less expletive-inclined name, they wouldn't stand a chance. Which is a shame, because my mother raised me to be an ambitious guy, and ...
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Fucked Up will probably remain typecast as a hardcore/punk band as long as lead vocalist Damian Abraham continues to gutturally bark out the lyrics and act like a Neanderthal by routinely beating his skull bloody in concert, but anyone familiar with the band’s work knows such a narrow depiction is bullshit, with a few full lengths and a slew of singles and EPs to prove it.