"Comet" by Boy Commandos

Joyous solo debut from Fucked Up’s Mike Haliechuk who has stepped into his long-deserved spotlight. Offering up a wonderfully honest look at what happens behind the six strings we all thought we knew, Boy Commandos eschew the world-whipping, mythologising, guitar pageantry of Fucked Up for a direct line to some glorious mixtape on which Evan Dando is fronting a band that travelled in time from The Replacements discography to have their record released on Good Vibrations. Like Sugar with 70s punk production, The Jasmine Minks with a better pedal board, Dinosaur Jr with a Les Paul.

The centrepiece of “Comet,” however, is its intensely personal and moving lyrics which chart everything from the culpability of heartbreak (“Don’t Give Me Your Love”), hilariously sitting with anger and disappointment (“It Doesn’t Take A Lot”), and the gloriously earnest “I Don’t Wanna Be Perceived” which stands out amongst the best lyrics Haliechuk has ever written. Made in London and Toronto with Fucked Up drummer Jonah Falco, "Comet" sits perfectly alongside contemporaries like Glitterer, Hitmen, and Hotline TNT in the canon of modern powerpop. This should be played loudly with the windows decidedly down.

Tracklist

1.	Don't Give Me Your Love	4:38

2.	Pick Me Up	3:29

3.	Doesn't Take Alot	3:12

4.	Let's Do A Hit	3:32

5.	I Don't Wanna Be Percieved	3:33

6.	Tara	3:58

7.	Everybody Leaves	3:46

8.	Think About My Bed	3:38

9.	I Can Feel It Getting Stronger	3:50

10.	Life On A String	3:08

11.	Comet	4:27

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Credits

released September 5, 2025

Recorded by Jonah Falco and Alex Gamble at Candle Recording Studio, Gold Standard Recorders, Palace Sound, and Fuzzbrain Studios
Music and Lyrics by Mike Haliechuk
Lead vocals, guitar, bass guitar by M. Haliechuk
Drums, back up vocals by J Falco
Mixed and Mastered by J Falco*
*It Doesn't Take A Lot, Tara, and Think About My Bed mixed by Alex Gamble
Cover by Daniel Murphy
Produced by JFMH
This is FU Records 033

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