51. Fucked Up - "One Day"
One of the most inventive and underrated bands in current music. It makes my heart bleed that Green Day can headline stadiums, whilst these true punk pioneers still struggle to fill the titchy Gorilla. This is another borderless album that sees them explore multiple musical dimensions, without once losing their distinct sound. It is Damian Abraham’s gruff delivery that pulls everything together and frankly makes Fucked up sound like Fucked Up.
This is an album about growing up. It is about staying true to oneself in a shifting world and it's about being middle-aged outsiders. It has more spontaneity about it than their recent releases and every song has been written in a twenty-four-hour period (one day) with all members contributing compositions.
It is an album that perfectly demonstrates that punk is an aesthetic and an ideology as opposed to a rigid style of music. In forty minutes it manages to be joyous, simplistic, challenging, and endlessly contrary. Nobody makes music like Fucked Up and in this identikit world, we need them more than ever.