Blog: 'Sup Mag

FUCKED UP /// THE CHEMISTRY OF COMMON LIFE /// MATADOR RECORDS /// WORDS: LOU WRIGHT /// St. Theresa saw Christ in psychosexual ecstasies. John Donne subjected himself to orgies of self-flagellation and debasement to commune with the divine. All that Fucked Up vocalist Pink Eyes has to do to prove the existence of something higher is remove his shirt, rub his nipples, and start screaming. The connection of hardcore and the divine might be offensive. Punk was supposed to be intentionally damnable, anti-church, anti-ideal, anti-beauty. To raise it to [...]