FUCKED UP

FUCKED UP is a Canadian post-hardcore band from Toronto, ON, who formed in 2001. Their 7th studio album, ‘Another Day’ is available August 9. Video for the single ‘Stimming’ is below.

About ‘Another Day’…

When you’re alive, every day is exactly the same but also completely different.

One day you’re hibernating inside. On another, you can’t wait to get outside. “Let’s goooo!” One day your heart’s shattered. On another, it’s full of love and blissful hope. “Do you maybe want to hang out some time?”

One day the body and mind you received from your parents start to fail, and you feel grounded or trapped. On another, it recovers and is strong, flying you and your inventions around the world. “I am free. Finally.”

One day, you’re down but optimistic. On another, you feel the same but altered. What a difference a day makes. 

Overall, the record explores growth and love and family and life’s subtle and overt transitions. “Another Day” itself is a hopeful sentiment; if one day is bad, we shore up knowing we can make another day better. Dialling into Abraham and Haliechuk’s lyrics, it’s impossible to ignore their celebration and recognition of the cyclical aspects of the lives we share.

To survive any hardship is to rebuke negativity and accept the challenge of carrying on. “Tomorrow” is one of the most beautiful and inspiring ideas we have. Indeed, the album even concludes with a chord that suggests it’s not over. 

 In a sense, the record’s a meta microcosm of how life tends to function—a series of things happen because we dared to try them, and then they’re done and gone. The sun goes down and is less present for months, and then comes back up, and stays with us longer. This impacts us in profound ways that can be hard to talk about. When we can, we try new and different things, every single day that don’t always go as planned. And this is fine; life isn’t always about accomplishing something, it’s about attempting to accomplish it in the first place. 

CHASTITY (Brandon Williams) hails from Whitby, Ontario, a suburb well removed – both physically and emblematically – from the stirring city of Toronto.

Chastity channels the angst of small town isolation, but focuses most on the bursting, earnest connections formed among suburban, blue-collar youth. The genre bending music of Chastity hovers in a space of oscillating urgency, both melodic and noisy, juxtaposing themes of collectivity and isolation. It is, in short, a perpetual ode to youth culture that winds in and out of the darkest and lightest edges of the self, and ultimately celebrates all it has to offer.