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Fucked Up - 'Year Of The Tiger'

A bells-and-whistles number

Fucked Up - 'Year Of The Tiger'

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  • Release Date: February 6, 2012
  • Label: Matador

Ox, Pig, Rat. Those Canadian funsters have run through more strange meats than Alex James on a fast food bender. Another addition to their ‘Zodiac’ series, ‘...Tiger’ is a 15-minute Springsteen-meets-hardcore, bells-and-whistles number. Cult director Jim Jarmusch pops in to do a spoken word turn while Annie-Claude Deschênes plays the nervy beauty to Pink Eyes’ Goliath-like beast.
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