About a decade passed between the release of Australian artist Spike Fuck‘s breakthrough 2016 Smackwave EP and his debut studio full-length, Evidence, and he lived several lifetimes in those ten years. From the beginning, Spike Fuck’s songs were visceral and intense, and they reflected his lived experience — struggles with addiction that included cycles of relapse, mental health issues, conflicts of identity with gender, religion, and more — and all of it bled through in songs that sounded somewhere between some lost New York Dolls material and the heaviest Patti Smith record never made. After releasing Smackwave, Spike got signed to a label and dropped from that label, lost his father, struggled with addiction, transitioned to living as a trans woman for…

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