Name: David Comes To Life
Brand: Fucked Up

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

LP-OLE-1804LE

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Colour

yellow

Colour details

Lightbulb Yellow Vinyl

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Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2021-12-17

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Beggars Group

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

191401180412

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2 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / yellow

Artist

Fucked Up

Genre US

Punk - Hardcore

Label US

Matador

In 2011, Toronto’s Fucked Up delivered an album that chafed the edges of punk rock’s conceptual boundaries –a set of songs that splayed freely into unexpected instrumentation, psychedelic drift, and situationist philosophy. Its ambition was limitless and its run time opulent. Which is to say, they made a concept album.

Matador Records celebrate the 10th anniversary of Fucked Up’s titanic 78-minute early ’10s masterpiece, <i>David Comes to Life</i>, with a limited-edition 2xLP reissue on lightbulb-yellow vinyl.

<i>David Comes To Life</i> is a story of lost love, global meltdown, depression, bombs, guilt and madness. Or is it? A modern-day morality tale set amid the dour backdrop of a British industrial town in the late ’70s, it’s a four-part play that follows the dark moods and inner psyche of the titular hero. At the same time, the reliability of the narrator gets called into question. The tables are turned, responsibility shifts, and the story goes meta. Of course,you could always ignore the backstory and just listen to a fiercely imaginative double album of blistering, melodic rock'n'roll shot through with all manner of psychic weirdness.

Right from the start, toronto's fucked up have been pushing musical and conceptual boundaries. their third album, the 18-song, 78-minute 'david comes to life', is a rock opera, an album set to a play. though no less monumental, it is far more melodic than their breakthrough 'the chemistry of common life'. there are more female vocals, which work in perfect contrast to damian abraham's highly effective wounded bull growl. the band sound tighter, with more space for the flourishes and imaginative song-writing that entwine their love of british indie pop with heavy riffing, and some genuinely twisted turns. perhaps most grippingly, the triple-guitar interplay between mike haliechuk, josh zucker and ben cook has risen to symphonic levels. they channel musicians from angus young, pete townshend and noel gallagher to bob stinson and lyle preslar with ease and grace. as for the story, more on that to come...

David Comes To Life

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