"I want this record to cut like a sharp knife": Spike F*ck reveals plans for debut album, evidence

evidence arrives a decade after Spike Fuck released his cult classic debut EP, The Smackwave, his first solo release following the end of his psych-rock band Bad Blood. This was followed by a period of success at warehouse parties, performances on trams in Melbourne, and a stint in the high fashion world before he eventually disappeared out of the limelight. "All By Myself” is a return for Spike Fuck, introducing the album with a fusion of new wave, glam and soul as he raises questions of whether joy is found in pride through solitude or loneliness. “If someone asks: what does it mean? We’ve done the job," he says of the track and accompanying video. "As society has abandoned mythologies, we must create our own… that sounds trite and I’m not quite sure how to defend that statement really. We’re not existentialists. In any case, we also live in a completely schizophrenic society in this sense, so the idea to create a story of a war hero/criminal undergoing an absurdist spiritual transformation seemed almost obligatory. Purgatorial musings, heaven and hell, redemption, fantasy, a mushroom that talks so on and so forth." "People understand truth through analogy, moreover, parables," h...