I don’t care what his bandmates might say about him – Fucked Up vocalist Damian Abraham, 29, is a mensch. I kid because I love. For more from this interview, go to this week’s Sonic Reducer. Here’s the best of the rest of this phone interview with Abraham, then in the middle of a six-hour drive to New Orleans with his group, which dwells in Toronto – a fact that Abraham is downright proud of (“Born and raised – a lot of the Broken Social people and all those other bands moved downtown from other places”).
SFBG: The Chemistry of Common Life is such a great record. What did the band intend to do when it started to work on it?
Damian Abraham: We knew what we didn’t want to do. We didn’t want to rush it, and we wanted to try some new things. We were a lot more comfortable when we sat down to do the second record. Mike [Haliechuk, lead guitarist] e-mailed me and said, “I want you to write lyrics about light and positive things.”