Fucked Up – Year Of The Goat [Limited Edition Colored Vinyl]

Description

Nearly twenty years after its humble beginning, the journey ofFUCKED UPs ever-evolving Zodiac series begins its towering conclusion with the announcement ofGrass Can Move Stones, a monumental ten-part finale set to a meticulously crafted text beginning with the albumYear Of The Goat, set for physical release on December 12th.

Four-and-a-half-years on from their last entryYear Of The Horse,Grass Can Move Stoneswill encompass the final three entries into the series;Goat,Monkey, andRooster, telling one connected story over three albums, an almost five-hour musical voyage through their varied styles and influences, that will revisit and recontextualize elements from the previous nine zodiac entries in ingenious and limitlessly imaginative ways.

The ten sides of music will be released serially over the course of a year starting withYear Of The Goatlater this Fall,Year Of The Monkeyin Spring 2026, and concluding with Year Of The Rooster in Autumn, the last entry of which will coincide with the 20th anniversary ofYear Of The Dogin October 2026. Each entry will debut on theFUCKED UPBandcamp, followed by a vinyl preorder for release on the longstanding home ofFUCKED UPs Zodiac releases, Tankcrimes.

Issues the band, We are excited to announceGrass Can Move Stones, the ten part finale to our twenty-year Zodiac album cycle. Join us over the next year as we release theYear Of The GoatLP, theYear Of The Monkey2xLP, and theYear Of The Rooster2xLP in installments, one story spread over almost five hours of music, that dives back into the characters, narratives, and music from all our previous zodiac records, told by dozens of characters and special guests. Sides will be released (almost) monthly on Bandcamp, leading up to the finale side in October 2026, the twenty-year anniversary of the first zodiac album,Year Of The Dog. Vinyl will hit stores through this year, so stay tuned.

Grass Can Move Stonestells the story of Monkey and Good Goat, two young friends who embark on a journey of self-discovery, encountering gods, magical creatures, and dangers along the way, loosely following the narrative of the fundamental Journey to the West,written in the 16th century byWu Chengen. The story also charts the career of the band, whose search for a musical home has led them through a varied and complex discography over their twenty-five years as a band.

As a text, the lyrics which make up the tale ofGrass Can Move Stonesare an enormous lattice work of philosophy, literature, and benevolent self-mythology taking the reader through the life and times ofFUCKED UPvia an expansive, fantastical open-world of dream like canyons, meadows, clifftops, and lakes; hellish encounters with enormous beasts, and uplifting moments of reverence and humility.

Compositionally,Grass Can Move Stones, is ambitious in its scale and in its execution.Goat,Monkey, andRoosterare thoroughly composed operatic suites of music which develop their thematics alongside the text and action of the story while cataloguing and reimagining twenty years of musical material from the existing Zodiac releases. The music mirrors the words and the words mirror the music.

Tuka Mohammed (featured onYear Of The Horse) returns to center stage withFUCKED UP, voicing Good Goat throughoutGrass Can Move Stones. She and Damian Abraham (the voice of Monkey) share the duty of making this journey on our behalf so we can gaze into the world in which the band, former guest vocalists fromYear Of The Pig,Ox,Tiger,Hare,Snake, and entirely new voices will fill out the cast of characters.Goatwill feature Jennifer Castle, Tamara Lindeman (The Weather Station), and Dwid Hellion (Integrity) as its central guests.

This isFUCKED UPs most ambitious work to date, a cinematic gesture of sound which relies not on the standard practice of genre-pushing or traditional mimicry but developing a musical language within familiar sounds that lives exclusively in the narrative universe of this great story. Central to the sound, though, is the always colossal weight of the five original members of the band firing in tandem to produce big music in new ways.

Theproduction ofGrass Can Move Stones spanned nearly ten different studios, six years of development, and a large cast of guests to compile the necessary weight to complete this release. The result islike being dragged through the Cosmos by Metallica, Carcass, Spiritualized, Iron Age, Poison Idea, and L7.

Tracklist:

1. Long Ago Gardens
2. Rivers and Lakes

UPC: 879198115014
Label: Tank Crimes
Release Date: 12.12.25
Format: Vinyl