Year of the Horse Act One is Stereogum's #1 Song of the Week
More cool news as people are finding Fucked Up’s Side A for Year of the Horse (and reading the libretto!) Stereogum has put it on their 5 Best Songs of the Week for the week of February 12, calling it “a 19-minute track of scorched earth and far-seeing visions…”
https://www.stereogum.com/
From Chris at Stereogum….
Before it's half over, the song has powered through riff-powered proto-thrash, punishingly violent hardcore, and medieval folk with an ethereal tint, all of it set to an elaborate "libretto" about a horse named Perceval by Haliechuk and David James Brock. By the end it has cycled through a lot more heavy-hitting bombast and dipped into something like folk-tinged psychedelic dance music. Whether you experience it as strictly music or as a multimedia art project, it's a thrilling journey — and apparently the journey is only beginning.