Each week, Consequence’s Songs of the Week column spotlights one of the best new tracks from the earlier seven days and takes a have a look at notable releases. Discover our new favorites and extra on our High Songs playlist, and for different nice songs from rising artists, you’ll be able to hearken to our New Sounds playlist. This week, PUP and Jeff Rosenstock be a part of forces on the incandescent new single “Get Dumber.”
Shit feels fairly dumb proper now, no? Pointless commerce wars, jacked influencers plunging their faces into bowls of water, high-level authorities officers not understanding how group chats work… it doesn’t precisely look like we’re residing in an age of enlightenment. Fortunately, our good friends from up north PUP have a well timed new ripper for moshing whereas our leaders repeatedly minimize themselves on Hanlon’s Razor.
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After all, “Get Dumber,” the brand new music from PUP’s upcoming album Who Will Look After the Canine?, isn’t essentially concerning the stupidity of 2025. The tune — which options indie-punk royalty Jeff Rosenstock — as a substitute is a cathartic, angsty rager that sees Rosenstock and PUP frontman Stefan Babcock each grappling with the absurdity of the touring life and rebelling towards put-downs from, presumably, people with “actual” jobs and 401(okay)s.
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“Seventeen nights on this coffin/ Nobody cares should you’ve misplaced it/ When there’s seventeen arms in your pocket,” they scream via layers of vocal compression within the opening verse. By the subsequent verse, they’ve turned their inward ire out: “You lastly name, it’s so boastful/ ‘You continue to taking part in these songs? It’s so embarrassing.’”
Nonetheless, whereas the literal lyrical content material focuses on the plight of a working musician, the blistering guitar tones and shout-along choruses (“I don’t need to hear who you’re dragging below/ It looks like yearly, I swear that you simply’re getting dumber”) communicate to a common, extraordinarily topical disillusionment. All of the whereas, it’s bought the power of, “I hate this shit, and the ship goes down — I don’t want YOU to inform me that.” It’s all a bit too relatable if I’m being sincere.
— Jonah Krueger