PUP have announced a new album, Who Will Look After the Dogs?, which is set to land on May 2 via Little Dipper/Rise Records. Today’s announcement comes with the release of the blazing single ‘Hallways’, which follows recent single ‘Paranoid’. Check it out and find the album cover and tracklist below.
“Within days of announcing our last album, coincidentally titled The Unraveling of PUPTHEBAND, my life unexpectedly imploded,” frontman Stefan Babcock said in a press release. “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,” he continued. “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.”
PUP recorded their fifth LP with producer John Congleton. “If we can’t solve an arrangement or songwriting problem in the room between the four of us in a few minutes, then it’s not really worth solving because we’d just get into a hole and lose perspective,” drummer Zack Mykula explained. “Thanks to John, getting out of our heads made it fun.”
Who Will Look After the Dogs? Cover Artwork:
Who Will Look After the Dogs? Tracklist:
1. No Hope
2. Olive Garden
3. Concrete
4. Get Dumber
5. Hunger For Death
6. Needed To Hear It
7. Paranoid
8. Falling Outta Love
9. Hallways
10. Cruel
11. Best Revenge
12. Shut Up