PUP announce new album ‘Who Will Look After The Dogs?’ with mournful new single ‘Hallways’

nme.com:

PUP have announced a new album, ‘Who Will Look After The Dogs?’ and released a new single, ‘Hallways’.The band’s new single follows their recent single ‘Paranoid’ and finds frontman Stefan Babcock mourning a break-up – “The first night without you/I collapsed on the living room floor/What the hell am I gonna do if I can never see you anymore?”Babcock also references the album’s title in the second verse – “I’m losing the will to keep dragging on/But I can’t die yеt ’cause who will look after the dog?”The album, PUP’s fifth LP, will be released on May 2 via Little Dipper/Rise.

It is the follow-up to 2022’s ‘The Unraveling of PUPTheBand’.“Within days of announcing our last album, coincidentally titled ‘The Unraveling of PUPTHEBAND’, my life unexpectedly imploded.

I wrote the lyrics for ‘Hallways’ while all that was going on. It was a weird fucking week,” said Babcock. “The title of our new record, ‘Who Will Look After The Dogs?’, is what I wrote at the top of the page, the very first thing written for this album.“I think it’s devastating, but in a ‘Holy shit this is overdramatic’ kinda way.

At least in context of the line that comes before it. That’s what makes it funny to us. That overblown stuff we all say in our dark moments can be hilarious once you’ve cooled off a bit.