{"product_id":"fuck_art","title":"Fuck Art","description":"\u003cp\u003eFuck Art is the third studio album from Hamilton, Ontario rock trio The Dirty Nil — singer\/guitarist Luke Bentham, drummer Kyle Fisher, and bassist Sam Tomlinson — released on January 1, 2021 via Dine Alone Records. Completed just as the COVID-19 pandemic took hold, the album was deliberately conceived as an act of joyful, unself-conscious resistance: a rejection of the pressure of making art as a professional obligation and a full-throttle embrace of pure rock and roll pleasure. As Kerrang! described it, despite the resignation implied by its title, \"its purpose — and the purpose of the band — is to offer up some joy,\" and the eleven-track record delivers exactly that with what Dine Alone Records called \"classic-rock heroism, pop-punk horsepower, '80s indie scrappiness, '90s alterna-crunch, and speed-metal adrenalin.\" Thematically the album is as irreverent as its title suggests — Northern Transmissions noted musings on Elvis's final moments on the toilet, social media narcissism, crippling hangovers, bicycle theft, and musical jealousy — all delivered with the band's trademark mix of grit and good humor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe album is widely considered the band's most commercially minded record, a fact that makes its defiantly profane title all the more characteristically Dirty Nil. Reddit commenters immediately noted that \"calling their most commercial album yet 'Fuck Art' is a very Nil move.\" Standout tracks include \"Doom Boy\" — a pop-punk\/thrash hybrid about listening to Slayer in your mom's Dodge Caravan that Loudwire named one of the best rock songs of 2020 — alongside \"Done With Drugs,\" \"Blunt Force Concussion,\" and \"One More and the Bill.\" Exclaim! gave it 7\/10, calling it \"pure escapism\" with \"punched-up confidence and middle-finger swagger,\" while Upset Magazine rated it 4 out of 5 stars, praising \"not a single mediocre song on the tracklist.\" It received a Metacritic score of 68 and AnyDecentMusic score of 7.1 — \"generally favorable\" reviews for a band that, by this point, had earned a devoted following on both sides of the border for their incendiary live shows and refusal to take themselves too seriously.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Record Store","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl \/ Album","offer_id":53577827516730,"sku":"38237","price":30.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/2041\/0682\/files\/Screenshot_2026-06-08_at_2.19.16_PM.jpeg?v=1780942880","url":"https:\/\/recordstore.ca\/products\/fuck_art","provider":"Record Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}