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More Matador goodness for me. This time it's Fucked Up's 'Year Of The Tiger' 12”. After last years epic The Who meets Bruce Springsteen rock opera 'David Comes To Life' I was hoping for something unexpected from the groups next installment of their annual Chinese New Year 12” EP but it looks like they're sticking with the progressive style with this sprawling 15 minute beast. To me this sounds very much like an extension of 'David Comes To Life' with tense melodic build-up's making way for crescendo's and massive chorus's...very typical of the Rock Opera format. Can't knock the ambition mind. Got some cool guests on this one too with Jim Jarmusch, Annie- Claude Deschênes and Austra all making appearances. Flip it and it's another mammoth track entitled 'Onno (Excerpt)'. At 22 minutes long it begs the question - how long is the original? I'm guessing it's an excerpt looped to make a new tune though I don't know for sure. It begins with a drone of reversed guitars and drums that carefully unravels itself to reveal a shoe-gaze-tastic synth and guitar wig-out that seems to last forever before eventually revolving back to it's reversed state. It definitely ticks of another box for the group and works better for me than the Rock Opera stuff. Well psychedelic. What these punks been smoking brah?
• Since 2006, Fucked Up have been releasing an annual 12” single on each Chinese New Year. Named after the beasts of the Chinese Zodiac, the sprawling, 10-15 minute-long epics have been among the band’s most acclaimed material and were the first releases to expose them to non- punk audiences.
• ‘Year Of The Tiger’ is an anthemic progressive rock masterpiece featuring guests Jim Jarmusch, Annie- Claude Deschênes and Austra. It was produced by Shane Stoneback (Vampire Weekend, Sleigh Bells) during the sessions for last year’s critically acclaimed rock opera ‘David Comes To Life’.
• The 15-minute long track features the band’s familiar layers of guitar and roaring vocals, taken to a new level with the addition of piano, Jarmusch’s dark recitations and Deschênes’ gorgeous crescendos. The B-side 'ONNO' is a 22- minute long palindromic drone.
• “Fucked Up apply raw, snarling anarchy toward the pursuit of a deeper truth” - The Onion.
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