DOSE YOUR DREAMS OUT OCTOBER 5 VIA ARTS & CRAFTS
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NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES BEGIN NOV 3
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On October 5, Fucked Up will release their forthcoming double-LP upon the masses. Dose Your Dreams is a sprawling double-album in the style of 70s rock opera – a love story in the age of disillusionment. The spiritual successor to David Comes To Life finds the band’s perennial hero David in the throes of metaphysical odyssey. The first single, “Raise Your Voice Joyce,” is an incendiary Buzzcocks-inspired stormer that sets the stage for the album’s impending clash of punk-adjacent styles, as David encounters his spiritual catalyst Joyce Tops.
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Written and produced by Mike Haliechuk with drummer Jonah Falco, the central force of Damian Abraham joined by a cast of guest vocalists including Jennifer Castle, Miya Frolick, J. Mascis, Lido Pimienta, Mary Margaret O’Hara, and more, Dose Your Dreams is an epic double-album of sonic, mythical journeying – a reckoning with the hope and dread at odds in our everyday. Says Haliechuk:
This album is about the freedom to live, to dream, and to make new dreams come alive in our real lives, which have been fed over to the forces of greed, reification, consumerism, and social media.
While Owen Pallett wrote and performed strings for the recording, he also penned the album biography, including this excerpt:
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.”
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.
Dose Your Dreams will be available as a standard double LP, deluxe Peak Vinyl edition with creamfruit coloured vinyl, 2CD, and digital formats on October 5 via Arts & Crafts in Canada and Merge Records rest of world. The band is set to take the album on the road throughout Canada in the fall. Full tour dates can be found below.
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DOSE YOUR DREAMS TRACKLIST
None Of Your Business Man
Raise Your Voice Joyce
Tell Me What You See
Normal People
Torch To Light
Talking Pictures
House Of Keys
Dose Your Dreams
Living In A Simulation
I Don’t Wanna Live In This World Anymore
How To Die Happy (feat. Alice Hansen)
Two I’s Closed
The One I Want Will Come For Me
Mechanical Bull (feat. Ryan Tong)
Accelerate
Came Down Wrong (feat. Jennifer Castle & J. Mascis)
Love Is An Island In The Sea
Joy Stops Time (feat. Miya Folick)
FUCKED UP ON TOUR
Aug 03 London, UK – Hangar (Visions Festival)
Sep 14 Victoria, BC – Rifflandia Festival
Nov 03 Ottawa, ON – The 27 Club
Nov 04 Montreal, QC – La Sala Rossa
Nov 05 Burlington, VT – ArtsRiot
Nov 06 Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall
Nov 08 Brooklyn, NY – Market Hotel
Nov 10 Washington, DC – Rock & Roll Hotel
Nov 11 Raleigh, NC – Kings
Nov 12 Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade (Purgatory Stage)
Nov 13 Nashville, TN – The High Watt
Nov 14 St. Louis, MO – Fubar
Nov 16 Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall
Nov 17 Detroit, MI – El Club
Dec 04 Phoenix, AZ – The Crescent Ballroom
Dec 05 San Diego, CA – Soda Bar
Dec 06 Los Angeles, CA – Echoplex
Dec 07 Pomona, CA – The Glass House
Dec 08 Berkeley, CA – Cornerstone
Dec 10 Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios
Dec 11 Seattle, WA – The Crocodile
Dec 12 Vancouver, BC – Fox Cabaret