It sounds patronising in the extreme, but Fucked Up have quietly spent the last fifteen years becoming punk rock legends without paying any attention to it’s tedious set of rules. Concept album? Sure. Ninety minute long record? Of course. Experimenting with all manner of musical off roads? You got it.
This made the premise of the Canadian’s latest project all seem a little underwhelming. A record made in 24 hours? I mean, please. And even if you ignored the idea’s contrived feeling, how would songs lacking the energy of the band being togther in the studio sound? The answer reassuringly is great.
Short, sharp and unashamedly more simple than any of Fucked Up’s recent efforts, One Day profits from an inspired-sounding Damian Abraham on just about everything he touches, whilst musically there’s still enough diversity in the fourty minute running time to serve up encounters with new wave (Falling Right Under) raucous street noise (Broken Little Boys) and the best song Hüsker Dü never wrote (Cicada). Legends doing things which mere mortals get wrong all the time? Yes, yes please.
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