F*cked Up | A Day in the Life

Hidden Track

It’s a testament to the connection and chemistry this band have built together over more than twenty years that they were able to pull off a unique feat of artistic daring for their latest album, 2023’s much-acclaimed One Day. Each band member, on their own, composing and recording an entire album’s worth of instrumental parts in a 24-hour span, then passing it down the line to the next band member, for them to add their own inspired contributions to the brew. For a band that’s been known to spend literally years crafting elaborate, sprawling, world-building concept records, this is perhaps the most radical and adventurous idea they’ve ever undertaken. The resulting album is heartfelt, brilliant, and full of the musical imagination and raw emotional power that's made F*cked Up one of the most beloved bands in hardcore punk rock over the past two decades. As a band, they go all the way back to when these musicians were not much more than kids, growing up in turn-of-the-century Toronto, and falling in love with the punk scene. F*cked Up are now, as then: singer Damian Abraham, bass player Sandy Miranda, drummer Jonah Falco, guitarist Mike Haliechuk and fellow founding member and touring guitarist, Josh Zucker. The artistic challenge on their new album is just as epic as ever, but they’ve gone from macro to micro. For this one, their ever-present big, bold artistic scope is more extreme close-up, rather than wide-angle lens. They're a band that loves a good challenge, and they continue to challenge themselves to find innovative paths toward artistic evolution and reinvention, over and over again.

On the Alberta leg of their album release tour earlier in 2023, bass player Sandy Miranda and lead singer Damian Abraham stopped by CKUA studios to share a characteristically hilarious and candid conversation with Grant Stovel. On this episode of the Hidden Track Podcast, we hear some of the band’s stranger-than-fiction stories and what it was like trying to distill their entire artistic essence into One Day.

Producer: Scott Zielsdorf | Host: Grant Stovel | Graphics: Shaun Friesen | Music: Doug Hoyer