Dose Your Dreams

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Dose Your Dreams
Dose Your Dreams.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 5, 2018
RecordedSpring 2018
StudioUnion Sound Company, The Hive, and Candle Recording
Toronto
Length82:15
Label Merge
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.

Contents

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]

PublicationAccoladeRankRef.
EarbuddyTop 50 Albums of 2018
24
[7]
Kerrang! Top 50 Albums of 2018
14
[8]
Stereogum Top 50 Albums of 2018
25
[9]
Under the Radar Top 100 Albums of 2018
44

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?8.2/10 [11]
Metacritic 83/100 [12]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [13]
Exclaim! 9/10 [14]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [15]
Mojo Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [16]
NME Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [17]
The Observer Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [18]
Pitchfork 7.3/10 [19]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [20]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [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

Disc one
No.TitleVocalsLength
1."None of Your Business Man"
  • Damian Abraham
  • Amy Gottung
5:18
2."Raise Your Voice Joyce"
  • Damian Abraham
  • Jen Calleja
  • Jonah Falco
2:47
3."Tell Me What You See"
  • Damian Abraham
  • Jen Calleja
  • Jonah Falco
3:26
4."Normal People"
5:46
5."Torch to Light"
  • Damian Abraham
  • Amy Gottung
  • Ruby Mariani
4:41
6."Talking Pictures"
  • Damian Abraham
  • Jonah Falco
  • Amy Gottung
6:17
7."House of Keys"Damian Abraham3:08
8."Dose Your Dreams"
  • Mike Haliechuk
  • Ayo Leilani
5:30
Disc two
No.TitleVocalsLength
1."Living in a Simulation"
  • Damian Abraham
  • Jonah Falco
3:13
2."I Don't Wanna Live in This World Anymore"
  • Damian Abraham
  • Jonah Falco
  • Amy Gottung
  • Mike Haliechuk
  • John Southworth
5:20
3."How to Die Happy"
  • Alice Hansen
  • Mike Haliechuk
4:52
4."Two I's Closed"Jonah Falco2:30
5."The One I Want Will Come for Me"
  • Jonah Falco
  • Mike Haliechuk
5:23
6."Mechanical Bull"
  • Damian Abraham
  • Ryan Tong
4:32
7."Accelerate"
  • Damian Abraham
  • Ben Cook
  • Mike Haliechuk
5:30
8."Came Down Wrong"3:45
9."Love Is an Island in the Sea"Jonah Falco2:26
10."Joy Stops Time"7:51

Personnel

Fucked Up

Additional musicians

Technical

Visuals

Charting

Chart (2018)Peak
position
Scottish Albums (OCC) [23] 80

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