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The Chemistry of Common Life

Punknews | 1 week ago

Fucked Up working on new full length 'David Comes to Life'

...has revealed that landmark Toronto hardcore act Fucked Up is planning a musical as their follow up to 2008's The Chemistry of Common Life. Guitarist Ben Cook revealed to the music paper...

Music Snobbery | 3 weeks ago

Fucked Up / Kurt Vile @ Maxwell's: The Blight of Canada

...probably the reason they won the coveted Polaris Prize, is that they are more musically minded on their albums. The Chemistry of Common Life has a cohesiveness where the guitars drive the...

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Chicago Sun-Times | 1 month ago

F---ed Up rocks on despite misconceptions

...if not more. Q: When we look at the band's long discography, it seems as if something clicked with "The Chemistry of Common Life," and suddenly a lot more people were excited about...

Pitchfork | 1 month ago

Fucked Up - Couple Tracks

...arguably the best hardcore album band of at least the last 20 years-- the Toronto sextet's Hidden World and The Chemistry of Common Life both manage the nearly impossible feat of keeping...

AOL Music | 1 month ago

Fucked Up: Couple Tracks (Review)

...when that band has a decidedly less-than-family-friendly name. Fucked Up's second studio album, The Chemistry of Common Life, however, was simply too good for even the mainstream...

Wikipedia | 1 month ago

The Chemistry of Common Life

..."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)...

Wikipedia | 2 months ago

2009 Polaris Music Prize

...named to the shortlist for a second time. Toronto hardcore punk band Fucked Up won with their second album, The Chemistry of Common Life, which despite being controversial, received a...

Canoe | 3 months ago

Do They Know It's Christmas? 2009

...of the $20,000 award Fucked Up received for winning the Polaris Music Prize for their most recent album, The Chemistry of Common Life. 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' is now available...

stereogum | 3 months ago

Fucked Up & Friends Cover Do They Know It's Christmas?

...funded the entire recording with a portion of their $20,000 2009 Polaris Music Prize, which they nabbed for The Chemistry Of Common Life. As far as the friends? Even if it isn't as...

LiveDaily News | 3 months ago

F---ed Up sports 'Couple Tracks' on winter trek

...Records--will be available in both double-CD and gatefold double-vinyl editions. The band's second and most recent studio album, "The Chemistry of Common Life," surfaced last year.

A.V. Club RSS Feeds | 3 months ago

Best Of The Decade: Best of the Decade:Music: the orphans

...sure, hypnotic hand. A grower that's sure to increase even more in critical stature as time goes by, Fucked Up's The Chemistry Of Common Life is simply too huge and weird to fully digest...

Vulture | 4 months ago

F*cked Up's Damian Abraham on Remaking 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' and What It Would Take to Work With Bono

...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...