PUP SHARE TWO NEW SONGS - LISTEN TO B-SIDES
“HOW TO LIVE WITH YOURSELF” & “SMOKE SCREEN”
NEW ALBUM THE UNRAVELING OF PUPTHEBAND & LIVE EP PUP UNRAVELS LIVE IN FRONT OF EVERYONE THEY KNOW OUT NOW
TOUR DATES CONTINUE THIS WEEK - FULL DATES BELOW
“The Toronto band Pup has long made frenetic punk-pop with neat verse-chorus-bridge structures underlying Stefan Babcock’s raucously overwrought and fully self-aware lead vocals.” - New York Times
"PUP’s fourth album, “The Unraveling of PUPTheBand,” finds the quartet completely removing any of the limits left on their music, pushing things as far as possible" - The New Yorker
"all the catchy, fast-paced melodies, big singalongs, and ooh-oohs and whoa-oas that you could want in a PUP record" Exclaim!
“Hearts on their sleeves, the group captures the rage and frustration of human fallibility with crashing drums and infectious irreverence" - NPR Music
"The new songs are boisterous, catchy, and meta while also earnestly wading through the nuances of depression in a manner often reserved for “confessional” indie rock…an instant mood-booster." - Pitchfork
“transmuting life’s frustrations into unhinged visceral joy” - Stereogum (Album of the Week)
"coming apart at the seams never sounded so good." Northern Transmissions
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Toronto punk heroes PUP— comprised of Stefan Babcock, Nestor Chumak, Zack Mykula, and Steve Sladkowski— released their incredible, ambitious and aptly titled fourth album, THE UNRAVELING OF PUPTHEBAND, last this year and performed a 100+ date tour that spanned 14 countries. They are gluttons for punishment and have just kicked off a Europe/UK run of shows, so to celebrate they are releasing two new songs. “How To Live With Yourself” and “Smoke Screen” are previously unreleased THE UNRAVELING B-Sides, and are out now.
On “How To Live With Yourself,” Babcock says: “This was the first song we wrote when we started working on our last album. The first one is always the hardest, you tend to overthink everything, so we wanted to start with something simple and fun, something that we wouldn’t get too in our own heads about. This one feels like a classic PUP song to me, and while our goal for the record was to push ourselves out of our comfort zone and try new things, sometimes it feels good to write a catchy, miserable ripper that feels like it captures exactly what this band is about.”
LISTEN / SHARE B-SIDES
“HOW TO LIVE WITH YOURSELF” & “SMOKE SCREEN”
“This song originated with a Nestor riff,” explains Babcock of “Smoke Screen.” “He sent it around, and the thing was so slow that I thought he’d exported it wrong. But his idea was to do a song that was like the “sludgey” version of PUP, something we’d never really done before. The more I listened to it, the more it grew on me. I remember in the height of the pandemic sitting in the backseat of my car at the Home Depot parking lot, anything to try and escape the house, and writing and recording all the lyrics on the spot.”
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PUP are on tour this summer, see below to find a show near you, get tickets HERE, and get a taste of what you’re in store for with their latest live EP, PUP Unravels Live In Front Of Everyone They Know, HERE.
THE UNRAVELING OF PUPTHEBAND earned PUP universal acclaim, countless Top 10 Billboard chart positions including #1 Heatseekers, Top New Artists Albums and Alternative New Artist Albums, and a slew of sold-out shows across the globe. The album was recorded and mixed over the course of five weeks in the summer of 2021, in GRAMMY Award-winning producer Peter Katis’ bat-filled mansion in Connecticut. Full of typically furious, ridiculous and anthemic songs, the recording process allowed PUP to push themselves further than ever before. With more time in the studio, they were able to craft their songs sonically in a way they were unable to in the past, and allowed themselves to incorporate new instruments like piano, synths, horns, and more for the first time. Though made in madness-inducing isolation (aside from Peter and the bats, of course), PUP were remotely joined on the album by Sarah from illuminati hotties, Kathryn from NOBRO, Mel from Casper Skulls, and Erik from Remo Drive. The result is not just the next PUP record, but the *most* PUP record.
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TOUR DATES
6/7 - Nickelsdorf, AU @ Novarock
6/9 - Donington, UK @ Download Festival
6/10 - Porto, PT @ Primavera Sound
6/16 - Toronto, ON @ Budweiser Stage
6/23 - Ysselsteyn, NL @ Jera On Air Festival
6/24 - Münster, DE @ Vainstream Festival
6/26 - Aarhus, DK @ VoxHall
6/28 - Essen, DE @ Zeche Carl
6/29 - Hannover, DE @ MusikZentrum
6/30 - Rotselaar, BE @ Rock Werchter
7/2 - Rotterdam, NL @ Metropolis
7/7 - Ottawa, ON @ Ottawa Bluesfest
7/8 - Sherbrooke, QC @ Sherblues & Folk
7/21 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Utah Is For Lovers,
7/22 - Denver, CO @ Colorado Is For Lovers
8/5 - Montreal, QC @ Osheaga Festival
9/11 - London, ON @ London Music Hall
9/12 - Kalamazoo, MI @ Bell’s Eccentric Café
9/14 - Detroit, MI @ The Majestic Theatre
9/15-9/17 - Chicago, IL @ Riot Fest
WATCH / SHARE “TOTALLY FINE”
WATCH / SHARE “MATILDA”
WATCH / SHARE “ROBOT WRITES A LOVE SONG”
WATCH / SHARE “WAITING”
MORE PRAISE FOR THE UNRAVELING OF PUPTHEBAND
“‘The Unraveling of PUPTHEBAND’...reinforces the message that it’s okay to be yourself, no matter who you are." - Vulture
"PUP’s winning recipe is 49% snark, 51% heart" - Bandcamp (Album of the Day)
"a triumphant, impassioned punk record full of massive choruses and dumb jokes." - The FADER
"it's enraged, it's anthemic, it's passionate, it's emotional" - The Needle Drop