Toronto punk heroes PUP – comprised of Stefan Babcock, Nestor Chumak, Zack Mykula, and Steve Sladkowski – released their first new original songs of 2021, ‘Waiting’ and ‘Kill Something.’ Both tracks were produced by Grammy Award winner Peter Katis (Interpol, The National, Kurt Vile).
‘Waiting,’ which features fellow Canadian punk artist Kathryn McCaughey of NOBRO, is a riotous, joyful, and ridiculously fun track that has everything you want from a PUP song, and more. Stefan explains why: “‘Waiting’ came about by smashing the heaviest riff Nestor could write with the simplest, most uplifting chorus I could write, just to see what would happen. The results were very quintessentially PUP, in that the song is a flurry of darkness and anger through the joyous lens of four guys just happy to be here, four guys who don’t take themselves seriously enough to make music that doesn’t feel like fun, regardless of the subject matter.”
‘Kill Something’ is about Stefan’s dog Moose, who loves to destroy his favorite things, and then is sad that those things are destroyed. We feel you, Moose.