Name: Dose Your Dreams
Brand: Fucked Up

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

MRG661CD

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

6-Panel Digipak with Booklet and Poster Inserts.

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2018-10-05

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

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Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

673855066127

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2 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Fucked Up

Genre GB

Punk / Hardcore

Label GB

Merge Records

Formed in 2001, Fucked Up is a Canadian hardcore punk band hailing from Toronto, Ontario. With their energetic and raw sound, they have become an influential force in the punk scene. Known for their intense live performances and thought-provoking lyrics, Fucked Up has gained a loyal following worldwide. Their unique blend of aggressive punk rock and melodic elements sets them apart from other bands in the genre. Explore their discography and merchandise on our music e-commerce website.

Merge Records is an independent record label based in Durham, North Carolina. Founded in 1989 by Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan, it started as a platform to release music from their band Superchunk and their friends' creations. Over the years, Merge Records has grown to include talented artists from all over the world, with some of their records even reaching the top of the Billboard music charts.
With its headquarters nestled in Durham, North Carolina, Merge Records has become a renowned name in the music industry. The label was established by Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan back in 1989 with a vision to share their own musical endeavors as well as support fellow musicians within their circle.
What began as a humble endeavor quickly flourished into something much greater. Today, Merge Records boasts an impressive roster of artists spanning various genres and backgrounds. From indie rock to experimental pop, *Superchunk* paved the way for other talented musicians to join forces under this esteemed label's umbrella.

“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. None of Your Business Man opens the album in familiar enough territory, a saxassisted exit from an office space. But things get psychedelic very quickly. By the time the title track arrives, Mike Haliechuk is whispering, wah pedals are in full effect, and we’re wearing oversized t-shirts and pinwheeling. Accelerate, the lyrical centrepiece of the album, storms in like Boredoms on a bullet train and dissolves into a digital nightmare. The album closer, Joy Stops Time, finds Fucked Up at their most Düsseldorfian, nearly eight minutes of blissful motorik. At the center of it all is Damian Abraham’s scream—a man chained, a man tortured, a true protagonist. The effect is one of an epic, every chapter attempting its own narrative devices, its own genre hybridization—and it works, it works so insanely well. The drama unfolds like a miniature world of many parts being explored, a map being illuminated, location by location. As with David Comes to Life, there is a story here. David - who once came to life—is now indentured to a desk job. David meets the elderly Joyce who closes his eyes, opens his mind, and sends him on a spiritual journey. David embarks on his own metaphysical odyssey. He sees a stage adaptation of his own life. He speaks to an angel in a lightbulb. He sees an infinite series of universes as simulations within simulations. Meanwhile, Lloyd—Joyce’s lover—was sent, decades ago, by Joyce on the same odyssey, but was lost in the void. Lloyd seeks to be found and reunited with his lover. Where will David end up? Will Joyce and Lloyd be reunited? Dose Your Dreams—meaning: treat your dreams as you would a dream, allow yourself to be lost within them, allow them to open your heart and your mind, enjoy them as you would a drug. Reach out for my hand and pull me close. Owen Pallett.

2CD - 6-Panel Digipak with Booklet and Poster Inserts.

2LP - Double Black Vinyl in wide spine sleeve and Newsprint Poster plus Download.

2LP+ - Limited Pressing on Yellow-in-clear “Creamfruit” Double Vinyl in wide spine sleeve and Newsprint Poster plus Download. Limited to 3500 Copies.

Dose Your Dreams

Music GB

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