After releasing the only “Paranoid” final month, PUP are again with the announcement of their fifth studio album, Who Will Look After the Canines?, due on Could 2nd. At this time, they issued the file’s newest single, “Hallways.”
Produced by John Congleton and recorded in simply three weeks in Los Angeles, Who Will Look After the Canines? can hint its origin again to the interval instantly after PUP introduced their final full-length launch, The Unraveling of PUPTHEBAND, when frontman Stefan Babcock was in isolation after the ending of a 10-year relationship.
Get PUP Tickets Right here
Impressed to jot down, Babcock went on an emotional journey of types, wrestling with emotions of previous naivety, self-loathing, and, finally, self-acceptance. The songs that got here out of that point — like the brand new single, “Hallways,” — mirror that development, balancing the relatable frustrations with a way of hopeful empathy.
Talking in regards to the single, Babcock defined, “Inside days of asserting our final album, coincidentally titled The Unraveling of PUPTHEBAND, my life unexpectedly imploded. I wrote the lyrics for ‘Hallways’ whereas all that was occurring. It was a bizarre fucking week.”
Referring to the road from “Hallways” that impressed the title of Who Will Look After the Canines?, Babcock defined that it was “the very very first thing” he wrote in preparation for the album. “I believe it’s devastating, however in a ‘holy shit that is overdramatic’ kinda method, at the very least in context of the road that comes earlier than it,” he mentioned. “That’s what makes it humorous to us. That overblown stuff all of us say in our darkish moments will be hilarious when you’ve cooled off a bit. I don’t know if anybody else thinks it’s humorous, however typically you gotta giggle at your self. It’s the one method out of the abyss. Belief me.”
“Hallways” arrived with a music video directed by Sterling Larose, that includes the band’s members bodily interpolated with family furnishings. Watch it under.
In the meantime, PUP will hit the street in Could for quite a lot of European tour dates, with assist alongside the way in which from Illuminati Hotties
For extra, revisit our interview with PUP’s Steve Sladkowski, the place he mentioned the band’s new music, their relationship with Finn Wolfhard, and extra.
Who Will Look After the Canines? Art work:
Supply hyperlink