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Fucked Up

"Year of the Tiger"

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February 22, 2012

The Ontario punks' fifth Chinese New Year single is a 15-minute hardcore odyssey narrated by the scabrous howls of Damian Abraham. "The tiger lives afraid as the tiger dies," he roars – but by the end, it's frightened of exactly no one.

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