Fucked Up have announced their new album Another Day, set to be released on August 9th on their own imprint, Fucked Up Records. Alongside the album announcement, the band has shared the first single and video from the album, "Stimming," and revealed North American and UK tour dates for later this year.
Another Day is Fucked Up's shortest album ever and arrives quickly after their previous album One Day, which emerged in the winter of 2023. Each band member separately recorded all their respective parts in a single day. The new album is a powerful document of a band known for elaborate, dense albums and often overthinking everything, instead letting go and trusting that they’d made the most of the time they assigned themselves to work with and against.
Today's single "Stimming" is a 3-minute joyous Fucked Up-style hymn to letting music carry you through those rough days and into the next. The arrangements and production feel inclusive and joyful, while the songs maintain the band's penchant for multi-layered introspection and external contemplation.
Talking about "Stimming," the band shared:
"In making the video for 'Stimming,' we tried to depict the transcendence of music from within our bodies outward to physical action. 'Stimming' is self-soothing behaviour through repetition, and in the context of music and our band, we overcome, calm, and manifest the best of ourselves through these specific, finely tuned physical movements which create a freeing joyous place from which to bring new ideas into the world."
Over the course of 25 years, Fucked Up have altered our time and space through an unlikely combination of having many great ideas and a persistence that sees them through. Damian Abraham writes lyrics and sings, Mike Haliechuk writes lyrics, sings, and plays guitar, Jonah Falco plays drums, guitar, and sings, Sandy Miranda plays bass and sings, and, though it’s been a decade since he’s been on a record, Josh Zucker has returned to play guitar in a studio. Haliechuk produces the records.
The record explores growth, love, family, and life’s subtle and overt transitions. Another Day was made in many different studios in Toronto and one in London, England, but it was primarily engineered and mixed by Alex Gamble and produced by Haliechuk. Guest vocalists include Sam Bielanski, Pretty Matty, Charlie Manning Walker, Holden Abraham, D. Franklan, and Danko Jones.
In a sense, the record’s a meta microcosm of how life tends to function—a series of things happen because we dared to try them, and then they’re done and gone. The sun goes down and is less present for months, and then comes back up, and stays with us longer. This impacts us in profound ways that can be hard to talk about. When we can, we try new and different things, every single day that don’t always go as planned. And this is fine; life isn’t always about accomplishing something, it’s about attempting to accomplish it in the first place well one day follows another and, if we’re lucky, there will be more days to come...
Save the date for Another Day, and watch the video for “Stimming”:
Upcoming live dates
Jul 14 - St Catharines - Warehouse *
Jul 15 - Windsor - Meteor *
Jul 16 - London - Palasad Socialbowl *
Jul 17 - Hamilton - Bridgeworks *
Jul 18 - Philadelphia - Ukie Club *
Jul 19 - Hamden - Space Ballroom *
Jul 20 - New York - Le Poisson Rouge (w/OFF!)
Jul 21 - Baltimore - Ottobar *
Jul 22 - Cleveland - Grog Shop *
Jul 23 - Columbus - Ace of Cups *
Jul 24 - Carrboro - Cat's Cradle for Merge 35
Sept 12 - Oshawa - Biltmore Theater *
Sept 13 - Montreal - Foufounes Electriques *
Sept 14 - Ottawa - 27 Club *
Sept 17 - Winnipeg - Park Theater *
Sept 18 - Saskatoon - The Capitol Music Club *
Sept 19 - Edmonton - The Buckinham *
Sept 20 - Calgary - Modern Love *
Sept 21 - Kelowna - Revelry *
Sept 23 - Victoria - Capital Ballroom *
Sept 24 - Nanaimo - The Queens *
Sept 25 - Vancouver - The Pearl *
Oct 31 - Toronto The Great Hall
Oct 21 - Cardiff - Clwb Ifor Bach ^
Oct 22 - Kingston - Fighting Cocks ^
Oct 24 - Milton Keynes - Craufurd Arms ^
Oct 25 - Oxford - O2 Academy Oxford ^
Oct 26 - London - Oslo ^
Oct 28 - Edinburgh - The Caves %
Oct 29 - Newcastle - The Grove %
* with CHASTITY
^ with THE TUBS
% with FAST BLOOD
