David Comes to Life

David Comes to Life
Studio album by
ReleasedJune 6, 2011 (2011-06-06)
RecordedTreefort Studios Brooklyn, SMT Studio New York, 6 Nassau Studio Toronto, Central Audio Studio Toronto
GenreHardcore punk,[1] punk rock,[1] indie rock,[1] rock opera[1]
Length77:47
LabelMatador
ProducerShane Stoneback
Fucked Up chronology
The Chemistry of Common Life
(2008)
David Comes to Life
(2011)
Glass Boys
(2014)

David Comes to Life is the third studio album by Canadian hardcore punk band Fucked Up. It was released on June 7, 2011 in North America and June 6, 2011 elsewhere on Matador Records in CD and double LP formats. David Comes to Life is an 18-song epic in four acts.[2] It became Fucked Up's first charting album in the United States ranking at number 83 on the Billboard 200.[3]

The album is a rock opera set in 1970s and 1980s England. The story involves unreliable narrators and meta-narrative plot devices. Drummer Jonah Falco described the album as a love story between the title character David and a girl named Veronica.[4]

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  2. ^ "A Brief History of Punk Ambition". Frontier Psychiatrist. Archived from the original on December 5, 2011. Retrieved June 27, 2011.
  3. ^ "Fucked Up – Charting History – David Comes to Life". Billboard. Retrieved June 20, 2011.
  4. ^ Gotrich, Lars (May 30, 2011). "First Listen: F—— Up, 'David Comes To Life". NPR. Retrieved July 1, 2021.