Since 2006, the singular Toronto rock ‘n’ roll establishment Fucked Up have been releasing a collection of lengthy, sprawling, bold data named after years of the Chinese language Zodiac calendar. Over the following yr, they may lastly full that challenge, releasing the three last Zodiac data as an ongoing collection that’ll finally make up a five-LP collection referred to as Grass Can Transfer Stones. The primary of the three installments known as Yr Of The Goat, and it was supposed to return out subsequent week. As an alternative, it is up on Bandcamp at the moment, presumably for Bandcamp Friday causes.
There are two tracks on Yr Of The Goat, and so they’re a couple of half-hour lengthy every. We already posted “Lengthy-In the past Gardens,” the primary of them, and we had been significantly contemplating placing Yr Of The Goat for subsequent week’s Album Of The Week regardless that it is not solely clear whether or not it suits the definition of “album.” Good factor we did not try this! It is actually cool, although.
There’s an entire lot of lore to Yr Of The Goat, which is seemingly only one a part of an enormous multi-part narrative. Fucked Up singer Damian Abraham performs the Monkey, one of many two primary characters, whereas more moderen collaborator Tuka Mohammed is the Good Lady, the opposite lead. Yr Of The Goat additionally has vocals from singer-songwriter Jennifer Fortress, the Climate Station’s Tamara Lindeman, and Integrity’s Dwid Hellion.
If you wish to dive deep into the report’s story, you’ll be able to learn it right here. You may as well simply let it wash over you, which is what I am doing proper now. The way in which that I have a tendency to consider it’s that Fucked Up have all these concepts, and what issues probably the most is that they put every kind of thought into how they wish to current this music. I do not essentially should get into the weeds with them; that zeal can nonetheless come by way of after I’m getting misplaced in all of the florid psychedelic churn that they’ve conjured as a car for these concepts. Select your individual journey, and listen to it under.
“Yr Of The Goat” is out now on Fucked Up’s personal Hidden World label, and you may pre-order the vinyl version right here.
