Fucked Up - Year of the Tiger reviews
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| Pitchfork |
 Total running time of Year of the Tiger: 37:35. Total running time of the Ramones' debut album: 29:04. Total running time of Nick Drake's Pink Moon: 28:22. Total running time of Fela Kuti's Expensive Shit: 24:13. Let's call this an album, OK? In any case, Fucked Up have been releasing long songs for each year of the Chinese Zodiac since 2006, although they're running a little behind at the moment. (The Year of the Tiger ended in February 2011; we've passed through the Rabbit Year and are now in the Dragon Year.)
Year of the Tiger is a pair of tracks that have been around for a while-- the band claimed to have finished the title song almost two years ago. It's the first music we've heard from the band in a while that doesn't have some formal connection to their David Comes to Life project. "Year of the Tiger" itself is a 15-minute song with a very long lyric (apparently by guitarist Mike Haliechuk) about an aging tiger approaching his death. Fucked Up's lead bellower Damian Abraham gets most of the words to himself, although he's also got some support: former Del-Byzanteens singer/keyboardist Jim Jarmusch-- yes, fine, he's a director, too-- intones a few verses, and either Annie-Claude Deschênes (of Duchess Says) or Katie Stelmanis (of Austra) or both add the pretty hey-I-can-actually-sing vocals that FU have been using for contrast with Abraham's voice over the past few years....full text |
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| Nme |
| Ox, Pig, Rat. Those Canadian funsters have run through more strange meats than Alex James on a fast food bender. Another addition to their ‘Zodiac’ series, ‘...Tiger’ is a 15-minute Springsteen-meets-hardcore, bells-and-whistles number. Cult director Jim Jarmusch pops in to do a spoken word turn while Annie-Claude Deschênes plays the nervy beauty to Pink Eyes’ Goliath-like beast....full text |
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| Spin |
The Year of the Tiger willl be burning bright, if Fucked Up's 15-minute single of the same name is indication. Out today, the 2011-conquering Canadian rockers' "Year of the Tiger" rings in the Chinese New Year on a predictably epic note, with a grandiose sprawl of growling, blazing, crunching over-the-topness. Hear it in the widget below, or if you have as much trouble as we did getting that to work, it's also streaming unofficially on YouTube. It's about a tiger!
Produced by Shane Stoneback during the sessions for SPIN's No. 1 album of last year, David Comes to Life, the track combines Fucked Up's familiar post-hardcore yawp with the type of droning art-rock chug you might expect from a single where the B-side, "ONNO," is advertised as a "22-minute-long palindromic drone." As promised, director Jim Jarmusch is here, intoning narration. So are synth-popper Austra and fellow Canadian Annie-Claude Deschênes of post-punks Duchess Says, though it's less immediately clear who's doing exactly what....full text |
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