Fucked Up, the golden child of Torontan hardcore, are giving away a new song, ‘The Other Shoe’, over on their official blog. It’s unclear whether or not this track is going to be present on the band’s forthcoming third album, David Comes To Life, but in the same blog post, the band did go on to explained the concept behind this new album.

The album is due to be released on 07 June, and the band have promised to release more news regarding it soon via DavidComesToLife.com, but for the time being, here’s the (amended) gist of what they had to say:

If you’ve been paying attention to our band for the last few years, you probably are aware that we’ve been joking/threatening the fact that we were working on a musical/rock opera/themed album/play/whatever. We came up with the idea right after Hidden World came out, which featured a song called, wait for it – ‘David Comes to Life’. Little did they know that 5 years later, they’d have to be still playing it every show after it became such a “hit”.

Anyhow, after Hidden World we realized we were out of ideas for full-length albums, because we had gotten used to the easy-going pace of putting out 23435494 7″ singles a year that we’d been doing for the previous five years. We decide the only thing more ridiculous than putting out a 73-minute punk record, was to just say fuck it and do a musical. We honestly came up with this idea in like 2006 and have been meaning to do it since then. Some of the riffs on this new record are from before that (I can remember practicing with Jonah in the basement of the house I lived in 3 houses ago). Also all the christmas time charity 7″ single songs were intended for this record (‘David’s Christmas’ and ‘David’s Plan’) but we decided to nix them because they aren’t really that good (they are both amazing) and because we got on a real roll writing songs for this thing.

So I shit you not, this is the record we started thinking about for our second album. We basically just wrote [The Chemistry of Common Life] by accident because we weren’t ready to deal with David Comes to Life yet. It was like if for your whole life you’ve been in love with this one girl and try to impress her at school or whatever, your job (what do you people do who read this, anyway?) and like put all your creative energies into this one girl, and then by accident somehow at a party you are making out with her lamer older sister who plays the flute and is really into science and your friends are all kind of like “wtf” and you secretly are too, but you just go with it and pretend like that’s what you meant to do all along.

For the full post, go check out their blog. Anyway, you want to here the new song, right? That’s why you clicked on this post in the first place. Check it:

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What do you reckon? Do the female vocals work as a counterweight to Damien’s gruffer style? Or is it a pile of old horsetoss? Does it make you stoked for David Comes To Life? Drop us a comment down below.