Fucked Up – Another Day review

A thematic series is not really something you’d expect to get from Fucked Up, a band who’ve bent and stretched their music into numerous fascinating shapes over the course of the last two decades. Yet in it’s premise Another Day at least in it’s broadest terms follows 2023’s One Day, where the players recorded all their parts separately and guitarist Mike Haliechuk stitched everything together.

As with it’s predecessor, despite the slightly contrived way of working, Another Day sounds like the work of a band who’re remarkably together – and as the shortest release of their career it also sees them delivering a harder edge bunch of songs.

Lovers of Damian Abrahams at his throatiest out there best will be thrilled by the likes of opener Face and the self-exploratory, anthemic Stimming. The over arching premise though is more limited, of being resigned to the perfidy of human existence and making the best of it; both the title track and the epic closer House Lights deal with having the sense not to mess with anything you can’t change. It’s a message full of wisdom, but you can’t help but yearn for a next time where experimentation and weirdness is back on Fucked Up’s list of things to be.

Read a full review here.