The Toronto rockers brought punk rock Canada Nice to Starland Ballroom.
,” a more theatrical and self-referential record than their previous work. It was novel to see the band open the show with the first track from the album, “Four Chords,” featuring drummer Zack Mykula playing a xylophone and Babcock on keyboards.
“I play piano, I started learning last Thursday, I spent every cent of the label money on this thing,” Babcock explains in the song, which imagines the band as a mega-corporation on the brink of failure. “Unraveling” is certainly more high-concept than 2019′s incendiary “Morbid Stuff.” It features a song written from the perspective of one of Babcock’s old guitars and a track entitled “Robot Writes a Love Song” that plays exactly how the title suggests, 808 beats in tow. Interludes disbursed through the album refer to band members as “the board of directors.”
But the Canadian rockers have elevated their sound and ambition without losing the components PUP fans fell in love with: Babcock’s feisty and earnest vocals, Steve Sladkowski mesmerizing guitar riffs and the band’s patented driving energy, whipping their crowds into a frenzy. That verve was ever-present as PUP launched into “Totally Fine,” the new album’s second track. While there is some dissonance to hearing thousands of people joyously sing, “lately I’ve started to feel like I’m slowly dying, and if I’m being real I don’t even mind,” you still can’t help but grin like and idiot and sing along.
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