Year of the Hare (EP)
single by Fucked Up
Year of the Hare is an EP by the Canadian rock band Fucked Up and marks the seventh entry in their Zodiac Series of releases, each named after a different Chinese zodiac sign of the Chinese calendar. The EP was released on June 16, 2015 through Deathwish Inc., which is run by Jacob Bannon of Converge, who also contributed to the EP's artwork and packaging. The lyrical content, the title track's composition, and accompanying interactive music video all make allusions to time, loops and rabbits.
Recording and composition
The two tracks on the EP were recorded over two years in three different studios, including time during the sessions for their 2014 studio album Glass Boys, when the members grew bored of working on the album and wanted to work on something else. Inspired by the books This Is Your Brain on Music and Perfecting Sound Forever, Fucked Up guitarist Mike Haliechuk said the band was looking for more experimental ways to record music that catered to the fact that sound is a subjective experience. The song was also intentionally made to be "a bit confusing and less structured" than a typical Fucked Up track, with a composition inspired by the structures of some movies or books.
The opening of "Year of the Hare" features several minutes of noise, which was a recording of an empty studio that was then played in the studio and recorded again and again through several iterations until the resulting recording became a "gnarly sounding industrial hum." Other experimental recording and production techniques on "Year of the Hare" included a recording of a member thinking of a lyric, recording members entering and exiting the sound stage, digital manipulation of audio, and audio loops inspired by Talking Heads's 1980 album Remain in Light and William Basinski's 2002/2003 album series The Disintegration Loops. The theme of "Year of the Hare" is "time, and becoming lost in it" and the lyrics make several references to rabbits, which are meant to be a "symbol for how little tasks and stresses seem to overpopulate our senses in daily life."
Promotion
Fucked Up teased the EP by premiering the 8-minute-long track "California Cold" for online streaming two months ahead of release on April 20, 2015. The band also embarked on a May–August 2015 (expanded with additional dates from its original run ending in July) North American and European Zodiac Tour, in which the band's lineup was expanded to a nine-piece band incorporating members from tour-opener Doomsquad, and they performed various songs from their Zodiac releases.
Interactive music video
On June 3, 2015, the band released an interactive music video for "Year of the Hare" co-created by Fucked Up and Canadian actor/musician Trevor Blumas (Warehouse 13, Twice in a Lifetime, Ice Princess).
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