Toronto punk heroes Pup – comprised of Stefan Babcock, Nestor Chumak, Zack Mykula, and Steve Sladkowski – will release their forthcoming album Who Will Look After the Dogs? on May 2nd via Little Dipper / Rise Records. The band have already previewed the record with “Hallways” and “Paranoid”, and they shared another ripper entitled “Get Dumber” featuring long-time friend and collaborator Jeff Rosenstock. On the
scathing “Get Dumber,” with backing vocals and unintentionally flubbed lyrics from Jeff Rosenstock, Pup is classically searing in all the best ways.

Stefan Babcock says of the song, “I wrote “Get Dumber” in Jeff’s basement. 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.

“We recorded the vocals together, in the same room, facing each other. 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.”

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