“About a year ago, on our way to Australia, we decided to stop over in Vancouver, visit our pal Sterling, and shoot a video for ‘Concrete,’ one of our favourite songs off the last record,” says Stefan Babcock. “His concept was mental and ambitious. We did the shoot, and waited for the final product. It didn’t come. Months passed and it seemed like it had disappeared into some technical abyss never to be seen again. Many days I searched the blackhole of my jetlagged memory and wondered if we’d ever even shot the thing. And then a year later, seemingly out of thin air, Sterling (and the video) surfaced. And we love it to death. It took Sterling and 13 designers and animators hundreds and hundreds of hours, physically creating thousands of individual frames, photographing them, animating. We’re fully aware that releasing a video for a song that’s already been out a year is a stupid thing to do. But we don’t care. At this point, we’re in an incredibly lucky position with PUP to mostly do whatever we want with this band, and for us, it was completely worth the wait. The video was made with no AI – just immense care, patience, and endless frustration on the part of the artists. We’re proud to be a part of Sterling’s vision and this mammoth project. I hope you like it as much as we do.”
PUP released their critically acclaimed new album Who Will Look After The Dogs? last year to critical acclaim and numerous top 5 Billboard Chart positions across the U.S. and Canada. They have been on the road ever since, and somehow are not done! Notably, they will headline FEST in Gainesville, Florida and will have a massive hometown show on August 23. A co-headline with Jimmy Eat World at RBC Amphitheater, PUP will be playing The Dream is Over in its entirety to celebrate the album’s 10th anniversary. See below to find a show near you and get tickets HERE.
TOUR DATES
June 27 – Manchester, UK – Outbreak Fest
June 28 – London, UK – Crystal Palace Park $
June 30 – Paris, FR – Point Ephemere
July 2 – Werchter, BE – Rock Werchter
July 4 – London, UK – Signature Brew Blackhorse Roa
July 5 – Sheffield, UK – Foundry &
July 6 – Brighton, UK – Chalk &
July 8 & 9 – Cheltenham, UK – 2000trees Festival
August 23 – Toronto, ON – RBC Amphitheater %
September 19 – Chicago, IL – Riot Fest
October 4 – Santa Ana, CA – Neverender Festival
October 19 – Wilmington, DE – The Queen +
October 20 – Virginia Beach, VA – Elevation 27 +
October 21 – Asheville, NC – Orange Peel +
October 23-25 – Gainesville, FL – FEST
October 26 – Birmingham, AL – The Saturn +
October 27 – Indianapolis, IN – Hi-Fi Annex +
October 28 – Louisville, KY – Mercury Ballroom +
October 29 – Nashville, TN – Eastside Bowl +
^ support from Gob
$ with The Offspring, Dropkick Murphys, Pennywise, Billy Talent, Destroy Boys & support from Gen and The Degenerates
% Co-headline with Jimmy Eat World, support from Ratboys + support from NOBRO and PONY
DOWNLOAD, PURCHASE & STREAM WHO WILL LOOK AFTER THE DOGS?
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. There’s plenty of growth, but also plenty of unpredictable mayhem in the arrangements and an acerbic bite in the writing. And while PUP historically are at one another’s throats during the album process, this time they scrapped their tedious perfectionism and rediscovered the joy of making loud music together.
“Within days of announcing our last album, coincidentally titled The Unraveling of PUPTHEBAND, my life unexpectedly imploded. I wrote the lyrics for ‘Hallways’ while all that was going on. It was a weird fucking week,” says Babcock. “The title of our new record, Who Will Look After The Dogs?, is what I wrote at the top of the page, the very first thing written for this album. I think it’s devastating, but in a ‘holy shit this is overdramatic’ kinda way. At least in context of the line that comes before it. That’s what makes it funny to us. That overblown stuff we all say in our dark moments can be hilarious once you’ve cooled off a bit. I don’t know if anyone else thinks it’s funny, but sometimes you gotta laugh at yourself. It’s the only way out of the abyss. Trust me.
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