Dose Your Dreams
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| Released | October 5, 2018 | |||
| Recorded | Spring 2018 | |||
| Studio | Union Sound Company, The Hive, and Candle Recording Toronto | |||
| Length | 82:15 | |||
| Label | Merge | |||
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| Singles from Dose Your Dreams | ||||
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.
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. |
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| Earbuddy | Top 50 Albums of 2018 | 24 |
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| Kerrang! | Top 50 Albums of 2018 | 14 |
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| Stereogum | Top 50 Albums of 2018 | 25 |
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| Under the Radar | Top 100 Albums of 2018 | 44 |
Critical reception
| Aggregate scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AnyDecentMusic? | 8.2/10[11] |
| Metacritic | 83/100[12] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [13] |
| Exclaim! | 9/10[14] |
| The Guardian | [15] |
| Mojo | [16] |
| NME | [17] |
| The Observer | [18] |
| Pitchfork | 7.3/10[19] |
| Q | [20] |
| Rolling Stone | [21] |
| Uncut | 8/10[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.
| No. | Title | Music | Vocals | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "None of Your Business Man" |
| 5:18 | |
| 2. | "Raise Your Voice Joyce" | Haliechuk, Falco |
| 2:47 |
| 3. | "Tell Me What You See" | Haliechuk, Falco |
| 3:26 |
| 4. | "Normal People" | Haliechuk, Falco |
| 5:46 |
| 5. | "Torch to Light" |
| 4:41 | |
| 6. | "Talking Pictures" |
| 6:17 | |
| 7. | "House of Keys" | Abraham | 3:08 | |
| 8. | "Dose Your Dreams" |
| 5:30 |
| No. | Title | Music | Vocals | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9. | "Living in a Simulation" | Haliechuk, Falco |
| 3:13 |
| 10. | "I Don't Wanna Live in This World Anymore" |
| 5:20 | |
| 11. | "How to Die Happy" |
| 4:52 | |
| 12. | "Two I's Closed" | Haliechuk, Falco | Falco | 2:30 |
| 13. | "The One I Want Will Come for Me" |
| 5:23 | |
| 14. | "Mechanical Bull" |
| 4:32 | |
| 15. | "Accelerate" | Haliechuk, Falco |
| 5:30 |
| 16. | "Came Down Wrong" | Haliechuk, Falco |
| 3:45 |
| 17. | "Love Is an Island in the Sea" | Haliechuk, Falco | Falco | 2:26 |
| 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
