PUP

The sound of punk rock is rueful piano chords and a singer turning the screws on friends of friends who "haven't listened to any new music since college ...

If the album proves anything, it's that PUP is fully ready to be itself in song. 9, with Palehound and The OBGMs. Sladkowski no longer feels "the imperative" to prove himself as a guitarist, he said. "Habits" foregrounds skittering synths, then makes the most of a chord progression that dates back to rock's earliest days on the radio. "We quickly came to realize that the instrumentation isn’t what makes PUP songs PUP. "There is nothing more PUP than a slow and inevitable descent into self-destruction." Ideas conceived in the studio share the album with original demo recordings, establishing a true through-line between various stages of creation, he added. [Toronto punk-rockers PUP](https://www.puptheband.com/) make on their fourth and latest record, "The Unraveling Of PUPTHEBAND." And the record bears that out. Like most, the members of PUP — which includes singer-guitarist Stefan Babcock, bassist Nestor Chumak and drummer Zack Mykula — spent months in isolation when lockdown began. "But what we always try to do is work in such a way — for those people who do want repeat listening, there’s going to be stuff that reveals itself that you might not have heard right away." Much has been made the band's expanded horizons on "Unraveling".