The second record from Toronto's hardcore wunderkinds Fucked Up is a dense, orchestral effort containing an expansive epic about the mysteries of birth, death, and the origins of life. Merging elements of hardcore songwriting with up to 70 tracks of guitars, organs, winds, and vocals, the songs are iconoclastic and startling, with Pink Eyes' growling vocals front and center. Though Fucked Up remain punks at heart, if quixotically diverse ones, they have created a great, weird, heavy record that stubbornly ...   [ read more ]

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For those unfamiliar with the band, they have about 12 singles, three 12" EPs and their Hidden World full length. The majority of the tracks found on Epics in Minutes have appeared on various 7" singles, some of which are long out of press as well as a number of previously unreleased mixes, demo tracks and part of a radio set.

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Fucked Up's first full-length studio album marks a turning point for the mysterious Toronto band, transcending the boundaries of punk with melody, aggression, expansive structures, and enigmatic diatribes on what lies under the immediate, visualized world. They combine confrontational ideologies with deliberate misinformation to produce a brutal analysis on thought provocative punk. "Ironically, their fast and sloppy early 80's hardcore is a million times more musical and ferocious than 99% of professional...   [ read more ]

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