Time for a bit of melodic hardcore to grace the pages of this webzine. Fucked Up are hailing from Ontario, Canada and they recently released their new album containing ten songs. Although the name already says it, this is hardcore par excellence. Fucked Up play their vision of melodic hardcore punk with many stop and go change of tempo, modern hooks and melodies but remaining with both feet solid in punk rock roots rather than metallic hardcore that more and more takes over the scene these days. This vision of hardcore is harsh in vocals, but also melodic and up tempo and sometimes made me fell good and filled me with energy listening to this one. Songs like ‘I Think I Might Be Weird’, ‘Nothing’s Immortal’ or ‘One Day’ won me over with their humor, real life lyrics to which you can relate, auto irony of sorts and above all great songwriting. This is a good band and good record.

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