PUP Announce New Album Who Will Look After the Dogs?

Toronto’s favorite pop-punk band PUP are back! Their fifth album, Who Will Look After the Dogs?, is set to arrive May 2 via Little Dipper/Rise Records. The project comes nearly three years after the band’s last, the very sweet and whole-hearted The Unraveling of PUPTHEBAND. They made this new joint in a three-week span in Los Angeles with art-rock whisperer John Congleton. It’s a synthesis of PUP’s great live energy and undeniable, decade-worn chemistry. New single “Hallways” is intense but full of craft, properly building on the thrashes of previous single “Paranoid.”

Vocalist Stefan Babcock said in a press release, “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. 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.”

Watch the music video for “Hallways” and check out the Who Will Look After the Dogs? artwork and tracklist below.