Fucked Up - Another Day [Milky Clear Vinyl] - New LP

Vinyl and digital only release. Vinyl comes with digital download card.

Over the course of 25 years, the Toronto band Fucked Up have altered our time and space through an unlikely combination of having many, many great ideas, and a persistence that sees them through. Damian Abraham writes lyrics and sings, Mike Haliechuk writes lyrics, sings, and plays guitar (primarily), Jonah Falco plays drums, guitar, and sings, Sandy Miranda plays bass and sings, and, though it’s been a decade since he’s been on a record, Josh Zucker has returned to play guitar in a studio (he sings sometimes too). Haliechuk produces the records. Like springtime in the Canadian prairies, Another Day is fleeting but buzzes with activity—it’s Fucked Up’s shortest album ever and arrives the most quickly after a previous album by the band. One Day emerged in the winter of 2023. Each band member separately recorded all their respective parts in a single, presumably rather cold day. It’s a powerful document of a band known for elaborate, dense albums and (over-?) thinking everything through, instead letting go and trusting that they’d made the most of the time they assigned themselves to work with and against. If One Day bore any traces of icy unfamiliarity, they’ve thawed for the upbeat, energized and optimistic Another Day, whose songs were recorded in the spring of 2023. If you compare the track listings and listen to what is being sung, you realize that in sequence and in a thematic sense lyrically, the two albums are absolutely connected in a purposefully contextual and rather brilliant narrative alignment. So, like any parts of a bold series, they’re not the same, but they’re not completely different.

Fucked Up formed in 2001 in Toronto, Canada. Meeting each other through the local diy hardcore punk scene. "Another Day" is their 7th full length album, they have released over 60 7” singles, and toured consistently all over the world since early in their career.

Their first three LPs, “Hidden World,” “the chemistry of common life,” and “David Comes to Life” have all been canonised as classic, critically acclaimed, genre defining efforts. The three to follow, “Glass Boys,” “Dose Your Dreams,” and “One Day” have challenged expectations in scope, style, and delivery, the latter which was written and recorded within the span of 24 hours. Alongside their LPs, the band have been releasing their more experimental “Zodiac” series since 2006. Fucked Up have released 9 12”s of compositional, genre-less, long format songs (20 mins plus) corresponding to the Chinese Zodiac, diving ever deeper into narrative forms including a 4 act opera (year of the horse), a musical palindrome (“onno”). Fucked Up has toured the world extensively and under extraordinary circumstances – a vegetable oil powered school bus through the mountains of the American West Coast, a literal slow boat to China across the sea of Japan, and of course a humble van on any highway that will have them – and bring the same idiosyncrasy to the stage that they do to their records.

ANOTHER DAY

WRITTEN AND RECORDED ON GUITAR ANOTHER DAY MAY 2022 AT CANDLE STUDIOS TORONTO,
ENGINEERED BY ALEX GAMBLE
DRUMS RECORDED MAY 2022 AT PALACE STUDIOS TORONTO, BY A. GAMBLE, AS WELL AS FUZZBRAIN STUDIOS LONDON, TOTAL REFRESHMENT CENTER LONDON.

BASS RECORDED BY SANDY MIRANDA OCTOBER 2022 AT PALMER STONE STUDIOS, TORONTO.

JOSH ZUCKER GUITARS RECORDED JULY 2022 AT CANDLE.

LEAD VOCALS RECORDED BY DYLAN FRANKLAND AT FORAN SOUND/WYCHWOOD SOUNDS, TORONTO, LATE 2023.

LEAD VOCALS BY DAMIAN ABRAHAM EXCEPT 9 BY MIKE HALIECHUK.
BASS BY S. MIRANDA, DRUMS BY JONAH FALCO, GUITARS BY M. HALIECHUK AND J. ZUCKER. BACK UP VOCALS BY J. FALCO, SAM BIELANSKI, PRETTY MATTY, CHARLIE MANNING WALKER, HOLDEN ABRAHAM, D. FRANKLAND AND DANKO JONES.

LYRICS TO 4, 5, 6, 7, 10 BY D. ABRAHAM, LYRICS TO 1, 2, 3, 8, 9
BY M. HALIECHUK.

MASTERED MARCH 2024 BY ARTHUR RIZK.

FINAL MIX BY A. GAMBLE AND PRODUCED BY M. HALIECHUK.

ORIGINAL COVER ART BY DANIEL MURPHY. HEDGE PHOTO BY MAKSYM KAHARLYTSKYI. BAND PHOTO BY COLIN MEDLEY
ART DIRECTION BY M. HALIECHUK, LAYOUT AND DESIGN BY
D. MURPHY.

ALL SONGS WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY FUCKED UP: D. ABRAHAM, J. FALCO, M. HALIECHUK, S. MIRANDA, J. ZUCKER. PUBLISHED BY RATS LOVE MUSIC. p AND m FUCKED UP RECORDS. THIS IS FU048.