Name: Dose Your Dreams
Brand: Fucked Up

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

MRG661cd

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Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Six-Panel Digipak Double CD. Includes 20-Page Booklet and an Eight-Panel Mini Poster Folder Insert.

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2018-10-05

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

673855066127

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

Artist

Fucked Up

Genre US

Punk - Hardcore

Label US

Merge Records

Fucked Up's Dose Your Dreams. Available here on Limited Edition of 3,500 Opaque Yellow and Clear Colored Double LP, Standard Double LP and CD.

The incomparable <a href="https://www.mergerecords.com/fucked-up" target="_blank">Fucked Up</a> have outdone themselves with this double-album epic, their debut full-length for Merge. “Never sink and never hide / They tried to break our dream, but child: / Joy Stops Time”. 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 sax-assisted 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 centerpiece 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 June 2018

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.

LPx2+ - Limited Edition of 3,500 on Opaque Yellow and Clear Colored Double LP. Includes 22.75” x 33” Two-Sided Newsprint Poster and Download Code.

LPx2 - Standard Double LP. Includes 22.75” x 33” Two-Sided Newsprint Poster and Download Code.

CDx2 - Six-Panel Digipak Double CD. Includes 20-Page Booklet and an Eight-Panel Mini Poster Folder Insert.