The Chemistry of Common Life

...and intricate, multilayered melodies. The last year has been a breathless one for the group, including their first album with Matador, The Chemistry of Common Life; tours of Japan and China; a rave in the New York Times and the cover of...

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Fucked Up's second album, The Chemistry of Common Life, landed in 2008 as a scabrous, astounding thing: an elaborate punk credo about the origins of life and humanity that actually did not suck. (It stands in sparse company: see also the...

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...than to the musicians themselves. For front man Damian Abraham of Toronto prog-punkers F---ed Up, who will perform their latest album, The Chemistry of Common Life, at Brooklyn's Masonic Temple next month, "The record always becomes this...

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...prize Fucked Up have won the Canadian equivalent to the Mercury Prize for the best Canadian album of the year with their album 'The Chemistry Of Common Life'. Called the Polaris Prize the jury led contest featured 10 finalists...

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...AM (EDT) Celebrated Toronto hardcore act Fucked Up were awarded the $20,000 Polaris Music Prize last night for their 2008 full length The Chemistry of Common Life. The band beat out 9 other short-listed competitors at a gala event in...

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...and broadcasters awarded the band the prize, previously won by Caribou and Patrick Watson. The six-piece band's latest album, "The Chemistry of Common Life" (Matador), was given the award, much to the surprise of its frontman. "We...

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...label's site describes it as "an expansive epic about the mysteries of birth, death, and the origins of life (and re-living)". The album is named after a book by James F. W. Johnston , which (among other things) describes hallucinogenic...

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ucked Up plays hardcore punk as if they have no clue what decade it is. On the Canadian band's second LP, The Chemistry of Common Life, they successfully blend all of their visceral, hard-nosed elements with a more formless, shoegaze...

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...Chemistry of Common Life | Pitchfork Whether it's their second release or their 60th (no one's even pretending to be sure), Fucked Up's The Chemistry of Common Life is really easy to get excited about. A lot's been made about how it could...

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Get a taste of Fucked Up's The Chemistry of Common Life here Posted: 08 Jul '08, 13:30 Toronto-based punks Fucked Up are set to release their first album for Matador, The Chemistry Of Common Life, on October 6 in the UK, and you can get...

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