Toronto hardcore punks Fucked Up has just announced Show Friends, a three-track project featuring previously unreleased tracks from the band. It'll arrive on Halloween (October 31) digitally via Merge Records, with the vinyl self-released through the band's own FU Records.
The songs featured on Show Friends were originally part of their album One Day from this past January, a project the band wrote and recorded entirely in 24 hours. Although they didn't make the final cut, the three tracks still embody the thrill and frenzy of the rest of the LP — as is evident on the project's title track, which the band has released today.
"This is a song about the complex relationships people can wind up having with music and the music business," bandleader Damian Abraham said of the title track. "What happens when the thing you have based your life around starts eating you alive?"
He continued, "I wanted it to have the feel of a mid-tour fever dream, replete with: anxiety, exhaustion, temporal dysplasia, and the flood of past wrongs and wrongings."
Show Friends is currently available for digital and physical 7-inch pre-order. Listen to the title track below.
The songs featured on Show Friends were originally part of their album One Day from this past January, a project the band wrote and recorded entirely in 24 hours. Although they didn't make the final cut, the three tracks still embody the thrill and frenzy of the rest of the LP — as is evident on the project's title track, which the band has released today.
"This is a song about the complex relationships people can wind up having with music and the music business," bandleader Damian Abraham said of the title track. "What happens when the thing you have based your life around starts eating you alive?"
He continued, "I wanted it to have the feel of a mid-tour fever dream, replete with: anxiety, exhaustion, temporal dysplasia, and the flood of past wrongs and wrongings."
Show Friends is currently available for digital and physical 7-inch pre-order. Listen to the title track below.