Pup Share “Kids” Music Video

Early praise for "Morbid Stuff":

• Noisey - "It's raucous and death-obsessed and silly all at once, packed with chant-along vocals and spindly riffs".
• Stereogum - "[‘Kids’] is a fitting follow-up to 'The Dream Is Over', their excellent 2016 album which we named one of the best albums of that year. It’s all heavy riffs and nervous energy and an exclamation mark of a chorus".
• NPR Music (Night Shift) - "With singalong ready – yet downright nihilistic – refrains and a pristine punk sound,PUP’s 'Kids' has the makings of an apocalyptic anthem".

Toronto, Ontario’s very own punk powerhouse - PUP - recently announced their excellent new record "Morbid Stuff", set for release on April 5th via Rise Records. The album’s visceral, wildfire first single “Kids” has already received praise from the likes of NPR, The FADER, Noisey, Stereogum, and more, and today it receives an incredible, futuristic and “bleak as fuck” Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux-directed music video. “Jeremy cooked up this hilarious concept of what all of our lives would be like 40 years in the future”, explains Stefan Babcock. “Our goal was to sorta set viewers up for this happy feel-good ending, and then at the last minute, crush them with darkness. Just like life in the present, most things in the future will probably turn out shit, or, if we’re really lucky, fine at best”. Watch the blood-oath bound band reunite in the year 2059 . Pre-order Morbid Stuff .

This Spring, PUP will embark on a European tour in support of "Morbid Stuff". Check out the dates below and grab your tickets as these are selling fast.

Formed in Toronto five years ago, PUP - comprised of Stefan Babcock, Nestor Chumak, Zack Mykula and Steve Sladowski - quickly became favorites of the punk scene with their first two, critically-beloved albums, winning accolades everywhere from the New York Times to Pitchfork, from NPR and Rolling Stone and more. Now, with "Morbid Stuff", PUP have grown up and doubled down on everything that made you love their first two records. It’s gang’s-all-here vocals, guitarmonies, and lyrics about death. Lots of them.

Fitting to their ethos, their new album takes the dichotomy of fun and emotional wreckage in their songs and teeters between gleeful chaos and bleak oblivion while wielding some of the best choruses the band has ever written. "Morbid Stuff" is also a pretty intense foray into singer Stefan Babcock’s fight with depression, and shows, in perfect PUPfashion, how taking responsibility of his own depression lead him to… Laughter. Admitting his depression allowed Babcock to laugh in its face, and the result is that marriage of darkness and joy that made PUP who they are, but in a brand new way.

Indeed, despite its dark subject matter, at times "Morbid Stuff" is funny as hell, even in the music. It’s the most insightful, sweetest, funniest, sickest, angriest, saddest and most inescapably desperate collection of songs they’ve recorded to date. If their self-titled record was the fuse and "The Dream Is Over" was the bomb going off, "Morbid Stuff" is your family sifting through the rubble, only to find you giggling in the wake.

Tour Dates
(with support from Milk Teeth):

• 16th April 2019 @ AB Club (Brussels, BE)
• 21st April 2019 @ Upstairs @ Paradiso (Amsterdam, NE)

"Morbid Stuff" Artwork and Tracklisting