Toronto punk heroes PUP will release their highly anticipated forthcoming album Who Will Look After The Dogs? on May 2 via Little Dipper/Rise Records. Who Will Look After The Dogs?, PUP’s pummeling and cathartic fifth LP, is their most immediate, no-frills, and hard-hitting full-length yet.
It was made in Los Angeles with producer John Congleton over the course of three weeks, and it’s the culmination of PUP’s past decade of constant touring and their palpable, livewire chemistry. The album evokes the lightning-in-a-bottle intensity of their self-titled debut (except they are much better at their instruments now), and finds our self-deprecating frontman Stefan Babcock at his most reflective, vulnerable and prolific. Over 12 tracks, Babcock excavates his life’s relationships—romantic, with his bandmates, and most ruthlessly, his relationship to himself.
Also out today is the album’s lead single, Hallways. The first song Babcock wrote for the album, Hallways is bracing and raw, but its lightness keeps it together: “Cause when one door closes, it might never open / There might be no other doors.”
