MORBID STUFF OUT APRIL 5 VIA LITTLE DIPPER
LISTEN SHARE “KIDS” HERE
THE MORBID STUFF TOUR-POCALYPSE 2019 BEGINS MARCH 26
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"I've been having some pretty dark thoughts. I like them a lot." - “Scorpion Hill”
Toronto, Ontario’s very own punk powerhouse – PUP – are proud to announce their new album, Morbid Stuff, set for release on the band’s brand new label Little Dipper, in partnership with Universal Music Canada on April 5, 2019. Produced, recorded and mixed by Dave Schiffman (Weezer, Cass McCombs, The Mars Volta), Morbid Stuff is everything that PUP fans have grown to love about them, but dialed up to 11. It’s gang’s-all-here vocals, guitarmonies, and lyrics about death. Lots of them.
The album’s visceral, wildfire first single, “Kids”, is available to stream today. “‘Kids’ is a love song from one nihilistic depressive to another,” explains Stefan Babcock. “It's about what happens when you stumble across the only other person on the face of this godless, desolate planet that thinks everything is as twisted and as fucked up as you do. And thanks to them, the world starts to seem just a little less bleak. But only slightly - it's still pretty fucked up to be honest.”
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This Spring, PUP will embark on a North America, UK, and Europe tour in support of Morbid Stuff. Pre-sale tickets will be available tomorrow, Jan 16th at 12:00 PM local time at www.puptheband.com, and $1 of every ticket sold through the presale will go towards The Trevor Project, the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to LGBTQ youth. Sign up now through 11:30 AM local time tomorrow at the band’s website to receive the presale password. General tickets are on sale Friday, Jan 18th at 10:00 AM local time. Full tour dates are listed below.
In addition to album pre-orders, which are available now, you can also pre-order “The PUP Morbid Stuff Annihilation Preparedness Kit,” which includes a CD or limited edition colored LP, a long sleeve shirt, a backpack with sewn-on patch, custom band aids, a waterproof container, and a multi-tool with fork, spoon, etc. A very limited edition version of the Annihilation Preparedness Kit also comes with a real full-sized inflatable boat. Yeah, you read that right. Get yours HERE.
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Formed in Toronto five years ago, PUP -- comprised of 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. Their last album, The Dream Is Over, not only debuted at #1 on the Billboard “Heatseekers” chart, but also catapulted them into international waters, selling out shows across the world throughout 2016.
With Morbid Stuff, PUP grew up, then doubled down on everything that made you love their first two albums. Fitting to their ethos, their new album takes the dichotomy of fun and emotional wreckage in their songs and blows it up, projection-style, onto the biggest wall possible, teetering between gleeful chaos and bleak oblivion while wielding some of the best choruses the band has ever written. It’s also a pretty intense foray into singer Stefan Babcock’s fight with depression, an album dressed up with heartbreak, broken dreams, self-loathing, and castigating yourself for thinking you matter enough to even bother hating yourself. And in perfect PUP fashion, taking responsibility of his own depression lead him to….laughter. Admitting his depression allowed him 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. Often times a heavy barrage of hardcore is coupled with a light, folky guitar that lives quietly in the background. Rollicking choruses disappear into nothing but a hopeful group chant, echoing through until the end of the song. PUP’s rage isn’t pure rage anymore; it’s rage being taunted by the reality that the rage is its own fault.
It's all the fury and celebration you've come to know, but rooted in understanding of where that fury comes from. 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 while you bleed to death.
MORBID STUFF TRACKLIST
01 Morbid Stuff
02 Kids
03 Free At Last
04 See You At Your Funeral
05 Scorpion Hill
06 Closure
07 Bloody Mary, Kate and Ashley
08 Sibling Rivalry
09 Full Blown Meltdown
10 Bare Hands
11 City
THE MORBID STUFF TOUR-POCALYPSE 2019
3/26/19 - Calgary, AB @ Commonwealth
3/27/19 - Edmonton, AB @ Starlite
3/29/19 - Vancouver, BC @ Wise Hall
4/3/19 - London, ON @ Rum Runners
4/9/19 - Bristol, UK @ The Fleece %
4/10/19 - London, UK @ The Garage %
4/11/19 - Leeds, UK @ Community Room at Brudenell Social Club %
4/12/19 - Glasgow, UK @ Cathouse %
4/14/19 - Paris, FR @ La Boule Noire %
4/15/19 - Dunkirk, FR @ Les 4Ecluses %
4/16/19 - Brussels, BE @ AB Club %
4/18/19 - Berlin, DE @ Cassiopeia %
4/19/19 - Hamburg, DE @ Hafenklang %
4/20/19 - Cologne, DE @ MTC Club %
4/21/19 - Amsterdam, NE @ Upstairs @ Paradiso %
4/25/19 - Boston, MA @ Royale ^ *
4/26/19 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel *
4/29/19 - Philly, PA @ Union Transfer ^ *
4/30/19 - Pittsburgh, PA @ REX Theater *
5/1/19 - Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom *
5/3/19 - Pontiac, MI @ Crofoot Ballroom *
5/4/19 - Chicago, IL @ Metro *
5/5/19 - Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line Music Cafe *
5/6/19 - Lawrence, KS @ Granada Theater
5/8/19 - Dallas, TX @ Trees *
5/9/19 - Austin, TX @ The Mohawk *
5/10/19 - Houston, TX @ Rockefeller's *
5/11/19 - New Orleans, LA @ One Eyed Jacks *
5/13/19 - Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West *
5/14/19 - Carrboro, NC @ Cat's Cradle *
5/15/19 - Asheville, NC @ The Grey Eagle *
5/17/19 - Washington, DC @ The Black Cat *
6/7/19 - Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall ^ *
6/19/19 - San Diego, CA @ The Irenic *
6/20/19 - Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom *
6/21/19 - Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom *
6/22/19 - San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore *
6/24/19 - Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge *
6/25/19 - Seattle, WA @ The Showbox *
6/27/19 - Boise, ID @ The Olympic *
6/28/19 - Salt Lake City, UT @ In The Venue *
6/29/19 - Englewood, CO @ Gothic Theatre *
7/1/19 - Santa Fe, NM @ Meow Wolf *
7/2/19 - Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar *
7/3/19 - Santa Ana, CA @ Constellation Room *
% with Milk Teeth
^ with Diet Cig
* with Ratboys