NEW ALBUM ‘WHO WILL LOOK AFTER THE DOGS?’ OUT MAY 2 AHEAD OF EUROPEAN TOUR.

Toronto punk heroes PUP — comprised of Stefan Babcock, Nestor Chumak, Zack Mykula, Steve Sladkowski — will release their highly anticipated forthcoming album ‘Who Will Look After The Dogs?’ on May 2nd via Little Dipper / Rise Records. The band have already previewed the record with ‘Hallways’ and ‘Paranoid’ and they share another ripper entitled ‘Get Dumber’ featuring long-time buddy and collaborator Jeff Rosenstock. On the scathing song with backing vocals and unintentionally flubbed lyrics from Jeff Rosenstock, PUP is classically searing in all the best ways. Stefan Babcock says of the song, “I wrote this in Jeff’s basement. I was house sitting for him while he was on tour. I recorded the first demo for it on his guitar using his mics and his computer. Maybe because the ghost of Jeff was in the room with me, I always imagined our voices on this song together, so I was very happy when he agreed to sing on it.”

The band will be on tour in May, at the following dates:

EUROPEAN TOUR
05/18/25 – Amsterdam, NL @ Melkweg (Support from Illuminati Hotties)
05/25/25 – Paris, FR @ Bellevilloise (Support from Illuminati Hotties)
05/27/25 – Madrid, ES @ Sala Mon
05/28/25 – Barcelona, ES @ Upload
05/29/25 – València, ES @ Loco Club
05/30/25 – San Sebastian, ES @ Dabadaba

Tracklisting:
01 No Hope
02 Olive Garden
03 Concrete
04 Get Dumber
05 Hunger For Death
06 Needed To Hear It
07 Paranoid
08 Falling Outta Love
09 Hallways
10 Cruel
11 Best Revenge
12 Shut Up

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 band’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.