Fucked Up
David Comes To Life 2LP (yellow vinyl)

In 2011, Toronto’s Fucked Up delivered an album that chafed the edges of punk rock’s conceptual boundaries –a set of songs that splayed freely into unexpected instrumentation, psychedelic drift, and situationist philosophy. Its ambition was limitless and its run time opulent. Which is to say, they made a concept album.

Matador Records celebrate the 10th anniversary of Fucked Up’s titanic 78-minute early ’10s masterpiece, David Comes to Life, with a limited-edition 2xLP reissue on lightbulb-yellow vinyl.

David Comes To Life is a story of lost love, global meltdown, depression, bombs, guilt and madness. Or is it? A modern-day morality tale set amid the dour backdrop of a British industrial town in the late ’70s, it’s a four-part play that follows the dark moods and inner psyche of the titular hero. At the same time, the reliability of the narrator gets called into question. The tables are turned, responsibility shifts, and the story goes meta. Of course,you could always ignore the backstory and just listen to a fiercely imaginative double album of blistering, melodic rock'n'roll shot through with all manner of psychic weirdness.

NEW /  Released in 2011 / Reissued in 2021

Tracklist:

A1 Let Her Rest

A2 Queen Of Hearts

A3 Under My Nose

A4 The Other Shoe

A5 Turn The Season

B1 Running On Nothing

B2 Remember My Name

B3 A Slanted Tone

B4 Serve Me Right

C1 Truth I Know

C2 Life In Paper

C3 Ship Of Fools

C4 A Little Death

D1 I Was There

D2 Inside A Frame

D3 The Recursive Girl

D4 One More Night

D5 Lights Go Up