The Dream Is Over
PUP's second album is a glorious half-hour of redlining guitars and pile-on group chants that turn self-loathing and self-deprecation into a sort of superpower.
The fact that Toronto’s PUP—which stands for Pointless Use of Potential—even made it to a second record is astounding. After the release of its self-titled debut, the band hit the road hard, touring almost constantly for two years and playing hundreds of shows. All that hard work was starting to pay off, but when the…
Turning it up to eleven, PUP’s second album is a tongue-in-cheek rampage through everything that matters.
Surviving too many months in the van and a resultant vocal cord scare for frontman Stefan Babcock, Canadian punks PUP live to tell another tale on their sophomore release, The Dream Is Over.
If you're a Canadian into punk rock, chances are you've already of PUP, and have been itching to hear the Toronto band's second album, The D...
'The Dream Is Over' by PUP, album review by Graham Caldwell. The full-length comes out May 27th on SideOneDummy/Royal Mountain. PUP play 6/1 in Pontiac, MI