The Chemistry of Common Life Fucked Up
The Chemistry of Common Life OLE-807 2008-10-07
Fucked Up's new album, The Chemistry Of Common Life, synthesizes numerous diverse impulses into an expansive epic about the mysteries of birth, death, and the origins of life (and re-living). Merging elements of hardcore songwriting with up to 70 tracks of guitars, organs, winds and vocals, (including 18 guitars on the first single, the fatalistic "No Epiphany"), the music remains iconoclastic and startling, with Pink Eyes' vocals front and center. Guest musicians, of course, abound, notably gorgeous female voices such as Brooklyn's Vivian Girls and Toronto's Katie Stelmanis.

The band remains contemptuous of churches and religion (opening track "Son The Father," with its refrain "It's hard enough being born in the first place: who would want to be born again?") while promoting an almost Buddhist mysticism ("Royal Swan"). But in the end the view is idiosyncratically scientific: amid soaring guitar chords, the title track pays homage to the random chemical processes that created life on this planet. Though Fucked Up remain punks at heart - if quixotically diverse ones - they have created a great, weird, heavy record that stubbornly sticks in your brain and your heart.

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1. Son The Father BUY MP3 BUY FLAC
2. Magic Word BUY MP3 BUY FLAC
3. Golden Seal BUY MP3 BUY FLAC
4. Days Of Last BUY MP3 BUY FLAC
5. Crooked Head BUY MP3 BUY FLAC
6. No Epiphany BUY MP3 BUY FLAC
7. Black Albino Bones BUY MP3 BUY FLAC
8. Royal Swan BUY MP3 BUY FLAC
9. Twice Born BUY MP3 BUY FLAC
10. Looking For God BUY MP3 BUY FLAC
11. The Chemistry Of Common Life BUY MP3 BUY FLAC


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