Dose Your Dreams

Dose Your Dreams
Studio album by
Fucked Up
ReleasedOctober 5, 2018
RecordedSpring 2018
StudioUnion Sound Company, The Hive, and Candle Recording
Toronto
Length82:15
LabelMerge
Producer
  • Mike Haliechuk
  • Jonah Falco
Fucked Up chronology
Glass Boys
(2014) 		Dose Your Dreams
(2018) 		One Day
(2023)
Singles from Dose Your Dreams
  1. "Raise Your Voice Joyce"
    Released: July 23, 2018[1]
  2. "Normal People"
    Released: August 15, 2018[2][3]
  3. "House of Keys"
    Released: September 10, 2018[4]
  4. "Dose Your Dreams / Accelerate"
    Released: September 27, 2018[5]

Dose Your Dreams is the fifth studio album by Canadian hardcore punk band Fucked Up. The album was released on October 5, 2018 through Merge Records.

The four-year gap between the album and their 2014 album, Glass Boys, marked the longest gap in studio albums in the band's history. This was the band's last album with guitarist Ben Cook before his departure in 2021.

Accolades

The album was shortlisted for the Juno Award for Alternative Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2019.[6]

Publication Accolade Rank Ref.
Earbuddy Top 50 Albums of 2018
24
[7]
Kerrang! Top 50 Albums of 2018
14
[8]
Stereogum Top 50 Albums of 2018
25
[9]
Under the Radar Top 100 Albums of 2018
44
[10]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?8.2/10[11]
Metacritic83/100[12]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[13]
Exclaim!9/10[14]
The Guardian[15]
Mojo[16]
NME[17]
The Observer[18]
Pitchfork7.3/10[19]
Q[20]
Rolling Stone[21]
Uncut8/10[22]

Dose Your Dreams received critical acclaim upon its release. On Metacritic, a review aggregate website, contemporary music critics gave Dose Your Dreams an average score of 83 out of 100, indicating "universal acclaim" based on 23 critic scores.[12] On review aggregator AnyDecentMusic?, the album received a score of 8.2 out of 10 based on 22 reviews.[11]

Track listing

Disc one
No.TitleVocalsLength
1."None of Your Business Man"
  • Damian Abraham
  • Amy Gottung
5:18
2."Raise Your Voice Joyce"
  • Damian Abraham
  • Jen Calleja
  • Jonah Falco
2:47
3."Tell Me What You See"
  • Damian Abraham
  • Jen Calleja
  • Jonah Falco
3:26
4."Normal People"
5:46
5."Torch to Light"
  • Damian Abraham
  • Amy Gottung
  • Ruby Mariani
4:41
6."Talking Pictures"
  • Damian Abraham
  • Jonah Falco
  • Amy Gottung
6:17
7."House of Keys"Damian Abraham3:08
8."Dose Your Dreams"
  • Mike Haliechuk
  • Ayo Leilani
5:30
Disc two
No.TitleVocalsLength
1."Living in a Simulation"
  • Damian Abraham
  • Jonah Falco
3:13
2."I Don't Wanna Live in This World Anymore"
  • Damian Abraham
  • Jonah Falco
  • Amy Gottung
  • Mike Haliechuk
  • John Southworth
5:20
3."How to Die Happy"
  • Alice Hansen
  • Mike Haliechuk
4:52
4."Two I's Closed"Jonah Falco2:30
5."The One I Want Will Come for Me"
  • Jonah Falco
  • Mike Haliechuk
5:23
6."Mechanical Bull"
  • Damian Abraham
  • Ryan Tong
4:32
7."Accelerate"
  • Damian Abraham
  • Ben Cook
  • Mike Haliechuk
5:30
8."Came Down Wrong"
3:45
9."Love Is an Island in the Sea"Jonah Falco2:26
10."Joy Stops Time"
7:51

Personnel

Fucked Up

  • Damian Abraham - lead vocals (tracks 1–10, 14, 15, 18)
  • Ben Cook - lead vocals (15)
  • Mike Haliechuk - guitar, production (all tracks), bass guitar (1, 2, 8), keyboards (5, 6, 11, 12, 16–18), lead vocals (8, 13), additional vocals (4, 10, 11, 15)
  • Sandy Miranda - bass guitar (3–7, 9–11, 13, 16, 18), bass engineering (3–7, 9, 10, 13, 16, 18)
  • Jonah Falco - guitar, drums, synthesizer programming, drum programming; piano (1, 16, 18), lead vocals (12, 17), additional vocals (2–4, 6, 9, 10, 13), vocal engineering (2–6, 9, 10, 12, 13, 17), production (2–4, 9, 12, 15–18)

Additional musicians

  • Amy Gottung – additional vocals (1, 4–6, 10)
  • Jen Calleja – additional vocals (2, 3)
  • Jane Fair – saxophone (1, 2, 4, 9, 10)
  • Yoobin Ahn – violin (1)
  • John Southworth – additional vocals (4, 10)
  • Ruby Mariani – additional vocals (5)
  • Owen Pallett – viola, viola arrangement (7, 8, 18)
  • Ayo Leilani – additional vocals (8)
  • Ryan Tong – lead vocals (14)
  • Jennifer Castle – lead vocals (16)
  • Miya Folick – lead vocals (18)
  • J Mascis – additional vocals (16)
  • Jeremy Gaudet – additional vocals (16)
  • Mary Margaret O'Hara – additional vocals (18)
  • Lido Pimienta – additional vocals (18)

Technical

  • Greg Calbi – mastering
  • Shane Stoneback – mixing (1–3, 6–10, 13, 18)
  • Leon Taheny – mixing (4, 11)
  • Matty Tavares – mixing (5)
  • Alex Gamble – mixing (12, 16, 17), engineering (all tracks)
  • Orphx – mixing (14)
  • Graham Walsh – mixing (15)
  • Bill Skibbe – guitar engineering (11)

Visuals

  • Eric Kostiuk Williams – cover art
  • Kevin McCaughey – additional art, design
  • Daniel Murphy – additional art, design

Charting

Chart (2018) Peak
position
Scottish Albums (OCC)[23] 80

References

  1. ^ Schatz, Lake (June 23, 2018). "Fucked Up announce new album, Dose Your Dreams, share "Raise Your Voice Joyce"". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved October 7, 2018.
  2. ^ Lynch, Joe (August 15, 2018). "Fucked Up Debut 'Normal People' Video, Talk Surviving 'Desperate Exhaustion' to Deliver Their 'Opus': Exclusive". Billboard. Retrieved October 7, 2018.
  3. ^ Leas, Ryan (August 15, 2018). "Fucked Up – "Normal People" Video". Stereogum. Retrieved October 7, 2018.
  4. ^ Green, Gil (September 10, 2018). "Fucked Up Share New Track "House Of Keys"". Stereogum. Retrieved October 7, 2018.
  5. ^ Castro-Cota, Isabella (September 27, 2018). "Fucked Up – "Dose Your Dreams" and "Accelerate"". Spin. Retrieved October 7, 2018.
  6. ^ "Shawn Mendes and the Weeknd lead the 2019 Juno nominations". CBC Music, January 29, 2019.
  7. ^ "Earbuddy's 50 Best Albums of 2018". Earbuddy.net. December 18, 2018. Retrieved January 9, 2019.
  8. ^ "The 50 Albums that Shook 2018". Kerrang.com. Retrieved January 9, 2019.
  9. ^ "The Best Albums of 2018". Stereogum.com. December 4, 2018. Retrieved January 9, 2019.
  10. ^ "Under the Radar's Top 100 Albums of 2018". undertheradarmag.com. December 30, 2018. Retrieved January 9, 2019.
  11. ^ a b "Dose Your Dreams by Fucked Up reviews". AnyDecentMusic?. Retrieved October 6, 2018.
  12. ^ a b "Dose Your Dreams by Fucked Up Reviews and Tracks". Metacritic. Retrieved October 7, 2018.
  13. ^ Deming, Mark. "Dose Your Dreams – Fucked Up". AllMusic. Retrieved October 7, 2018.
  14. ^ Smith-Engelhardt, Joe (October 3, 2018). "Fucked Up: Dose Your Dreams". Exclaim!. Retrieved October 7, 2018.
  15. ^ Simpson, Dave (October 5, 2018). "Fucked Up: Dose Your Dreams review – hardcore punks' joyful reinvention". The Guardian. Retrieved October 7, 2018.
  16. ^ Bulley, Jenny (December 2018). "Fucked Up: Dose Your Dreams". Mojo (301): 94.
  17. ^ Moore, Sam (October 3, 2018). "Fucked Up – 'Dose Your Dreams' review". NME. Retrieved December 18, 2019.
  18. ^ Mongredien, Phil (October 7, 2018). "Fucked Up: Dose Your Dreams review – soaring ambition". The Observer. Retrieved September 2, 2019.
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  20. ^ Everley, Dave (November 2018). "Fucked Up: Dose Your Dreams". Q (391): 106.
  21. ^ Grow, Kory (October 5, 2018). "Review: Fucked Up's 90-Minute Rock Opera 'Dose Your Dreams'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved October 7, 2018.
  22. ^ Cochrane, Greg (November 2018). "Fucked Up: Dose Your Dreams". Uncut (258): 29.
  23. ^ "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved October 13, 2018.