Canadian punk rockers PUP are returning to Australia this August, armed with a brand new album. The band’s fifth studio LP Who Will Look After The Dogs? is set to wallop us in the eardrums on Friday, 2nd May, with the announcement coming peppered with a ripping new track, a Jeff Rosenstock collab called ‘Get Dumber’.
“I wrote ‘Get Dumber’ in Jeff’s basement,” frontman Stefan Babcock explains. “I was house sitting for him while he was on tour. I recorded the first demo for it on his guitar using his mics and his computer. Maybe because the ghost of Jeff was in the room with me, I always imagined our voices on this song together, so I was very happy when he agreed to sing on it.”
PUP – ‘Get Dumber’ Ft. Jeff Rosenstock
“We recorded the vocals together, in the same room, facing each other,” he continues. “What that means is, we both had to nail it at the same time because we couldn’t really cut between takes. On the first take, he forgot a line in the second verse and said ‘ahhhhhh, lyrics’ instead.
“I couldn’t finish the take because I was laughing too hard. Anyway, he practiced singing the correct lyrics but then we decided those lyrics kinda sucked and he should just stick to ‘ahhhh lyrics’ because it’s funny and the song is called ‘Get Dumber’. We nailed it on the second take.”
The song marks our third cut of PUP’s forthcoming record, following on from ‘Hallways‘ and ‘Paranoid‘.
To celebrate the release of Who Will Look After The Dogs?, PUP will hit our shores this August for a five-date headline tour, kicking off in Brisbane before heading to Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and wrapping up in Perth.
You can suss all the dates and ticketing details down below, pre-order Who Will Look After The Dogs? here, or take ‘Get Dumber’ Ft. Jeff Rosenstock for a spin up above.
PUP 2025 Tour Dates
- Friday August 8 – Princess Theatre, Brisbane
- Saturday August 9 – Metro Theatre, Sydney
- Sunday August 10 – Northcote Theatre, Melbourne
- Tuesday August 12 – Hindley Street Music Hall, Adelaide
- Thursday August 14 – Magnet House, Perth
Pre-Sale starts on Thursday March 27 at 9am Local Time
General on-sale Friday March 28 at 9am Local Time via puptheband.com
Further Reading
Watch PUP Give Phantogram A Punk Makeover For ‘Like A Version’
Watch PUP’s NPR Tiny Desk Concert, Feat. ‘Kids’
Love Letter To A Record: Blue Velvet On PUP’s Self-Titled Debut
