Fucked Up don't get the kind of attention that they once did, but they are still an underground rock 'n' roll institution, and they still put out a whole lot of music. Just last month, Fucked Up released Year Of The Monkey, the second installlment in the hugely ambitious new 12" single series Grass Can Move Stones, which will apparently finish out their long-running Chinese Zodiac project after 20 years. That's not enough to keep them busy, though. Today, a couple of Fucked Up members launch a new side project that recalls the band's early hardcore punk days.
Fucked Up guitarist/mastermind Mike Haliechuk and drummer Jonah Falco already make sharp, precise indie-pop in their side-project duo Jade Hairpins. Now, they've got a new thing called Crazy Clue with Bobby Cole, a member of UK hardcore punk bands like Total Con, the Annihilated, and Antagonizm. Crazy Clue's full-length debut Where The Dregs Dwell comes out next month, and its opening track "Social Pressure" is a fast, bracing blast of '80s-style hardcore punk. It reminds me less of any era of Fucked Up and more of Falco's intermittently active band Career Suicide. Check it out below.
TRACKLIST:
01 "Social Pressure"
02 "Slavedriver"
03 "Faded Scar"
04 "Fighting"
05 "Ambivalence"
06 "Hierarchy"
07 "Race To The Bottom"
08 "No Room In Hell"
09 "Control"
10 "Broken Spirit"
Where The Dregs Dwell is out 8/7 on Beach Impediment.
