Dose Your Dreams

Dose Your Dreams
Studio album by
Fucked Up
ReleasedOctober 5, 2018
RecordedSpring 2018
StudioUnion Sound Company, The Hive, and Candle RecordingToronto
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.
EarbuddyTop 50 Albums of 2018
24
[7]
Kerrang!Top 50 Albums of 2018
14
[8]
StereogumTop 50 Albums of 2018
25
[9]
Under the RadarTop 100 Albums of 2018
44
[10]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?8.2/10[11]
Metacritic83/100[12]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusicStarStarStarStar[13]
Exclaim!9/10[14]
The GuardianStarStarStarStarStar[15]
MojoStarStarStarStar[16]
NMEStarStarStarStar[17]
The ObserverStarStarStar[18]
Pitchfork7.3/10[19]
QStarStarStarStar[20]
Rolling StoneStarStarStar[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

All lyrics are written by Mike Haliechuk (with lyrical consultation by Maggie Macdonald); all music is composed by Mike Haliechuk, except where noted.

Disc one
No.TitleMusicVocalsLength
1."None of Your Business Man" 
  • Damian Abraham
  • Amy Gottung
5:18
2."Raise Your Voice Joyce"Haliechuk, Falco
  • Abraham
  • Jen Calleja
  • Jonah Falco
2:47
3."Tell Me What You See"Haliechuk, Falco
  • Abraham
  • Calleja
  • Falco
3:26
4."Normal People"Haliechuk, Falco
5:46
5."Torch to Light" 
  • Abraham
  • Gottung
  • Ruby Mariani
4:41
6."Talking Pictures" 
  • Abraham
  • Falco
  • Gottung
6:17
7."House of Keys" Abraham3:08
8."Dose Your Dreams" 
  • Abraham
  • Haliechuk
  • Ayo Leilani
5:30
Disc two
No.TitleMusicVocalsLength
9."Living in a Simulation"Haliechuk, Falco
  • Abraham
  • Falco
3:13
10."I Don't Wanna Live in This World Anymore" 
  • Abraham
  • Falco
  • Gottung
  • Haliechuk
  • Southworth
5:20
11."How to Die Happy" 
  • Alice Hansen
  • Haliechuk
4:52
12."Two I's Closed"Haliechuk, FalcoFalco2:30
13."The One I Want Will Come for Me" 
  • Haliechuk
  • Falco
5:23
14."Mechanical Bull" 
  • Abraham
  • Ryan Tong
4:32
15."Accelerate"Haliechuk, Falco
  • Abraham
  • Ben Cook
  • Haliechuk
5:30
16."Came Down Wrong"Haliechuk, Falco
3:45
17."Love Is an Island in the Sea"Haliechuk, FalcoFalco2:26
18."Joy Stops Time"Haliechuk, Falco
7:51

Personnel

Fucked Up
  • Damian Abraham – lead vocals (tracks 1–10, 14, 15, 18)
  • Mike Haliechuk – guitar (all tracks), bass guitar (1, 2, 8), keyboards (5, 6, 11, 12, 16–18), lead vocals (8, 13), additional vocals (4, 10, 11, 15); synth and drum programming; production
  • Sandy Miranda – bass guitar (3–7, 9–11, 13, 16, 18); bass engineering(3–7, 9, 10, 13, 16, 18)
  • Jonah Falco – drums (all tracks), guitar (all tracks), piano (1, 16, 18), lead vocals (12, 17), additional vocals (2–4, 6, 9, 10, 13); production (2–4, 9, 12, 15–18); vocal engineering (2–6, 9, 10, 12, 13, 17)
  • Ben Cook – lead vocals (15)
  • Josh Zucker
Additional musicians
  • Alice Hansen – lead vocals (11)
  • Ryan Tong – lead vocals (14)
  • Jennifer Castle – lead vocals (16)
  • Miya Folick – lead vocals (18)
  • Amy Gottung – additional vocals (1, 4–6, 10)
  • Jen Calleja – additional vocals (2, 3)
  • John Southworth – additional vocals (4, 10)
  • Ruby Mariani – additional vocals (5)
  • Ayo Leilani – additional vocals (8)
  • J Mascis – additional vocals (16)
  • Jeremy Gaudet – additional vocals (16)
  • Mary Margaret O'Hara – additional vocals (18)
  • Lido Pimienta – additional vocals (18)
  • Jane Fair – saxophone (1, 2, 4, 9, 10)
  • Yoobin Ahn – violin (1)
  • Owen Pallett – viola, viola arrangement (7, 8, 18)
Technical
  • Alex Gamble – engineering (all tracks), mixing (12, 16, 17)
  • Bill Skibbe – guitar engineering (11)
  • Shane Stoneback – mixing(1–3, 6–10, 13, 18)
  • Leon Taheny – mixing (4, 11)
  • Matty Tavares – mixing (5)
  • Orphx – mixing (14)
  • Graham Walsh – mixing (15)
  • Greg Calbi – mastering
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. ^ ab"Dose Your Dreams by Fucked Up reviews". AnyDecentMusic?. Retrieved October 6, 2018.
  12. ^ ab"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.
  19. ^Cohen, Ian (October 8, 2018). "Fucked Up: Dose Your Dreams". Pitchfork. Retrieved September 2, 2019.
  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 on 12/10/2018 – Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved October 13, 2018.
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