PUP - DVP

1.   Who are these legends?

PUP are a punk band from Toronto, Canada. These heroes have been burning up the music scene since 2013 and have one long player the self titled PUP (2014). DVP comes rocking of the short player The Dream Is Over (Jan'16).

2. What kind of tune have PUP served up?

Don't read too much into the ‘punk’ description.  It starts out all fire and brimstone and shouted verse but the chorus is all melody and ‘ohhh ohhhs.’
A story telling song about getting drunk and the emotional fall out, you can hear the lyrics despite the speeding down the highway chased by the police speed of the drums and guitars.

3. Who do these PUP punks sound like?

Cloud Nothings, Metz, Not Scientists and Dirty Nil.

4. What have the press got to say about DVP?

“Mile-a-minute ramshackle punk stumbles into a killer harmony, all bolstered by emotionally bare lyrics” – Stereogum.

“Throttles forward at a breakneck pace, at least three choruses crashing together in a glorious pile-up” – Pitchfork.

“PUP list off their messy failings over a rip-roaring melody” – Consequence Of Sound.

5. Who put the gas in PUP’s drive?

Built To Spill, The Bronx and Queens Of The Stone Age are the bands main influences.

6. So why should I give this banger a whistle past the ear holes?

DVP is a screamer of a punk tune but it luxuriates in melody while laying bare the feelings of late night drunk heroics and morning after blues.

PUP have been big-upped by Noisey Vice, their debut album “is a perfect ten,” and sounds like, “If Weezer made a punk album somewhere between the Blue Album and Pinkerton.”

7. Do these Canadian heroes have any more bangers?

Oh yes, they do. Guilt Trip is the most popular and has the Weezer vibe.

8. Have you got any more pearls of wisedom to drop about PUP?

All four members went to elementary school together and have been friends ever since.

PUP have been on fluffer duties for The Hives, The Smith Street Band and Modern Baseball.

PUP do a cover of the Jay Reatard song My Shadow and a stonking version of The Buzzcocks Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't Have).

“Your sister thinks that I'm a freak,
She's been ignoring my calls, we haven't spoken in a week,
I get so drunk that I can't speak”

Slippery seconds is served courtesy of The Smith Street Band. Hailing from Melbourne, Australia and with three long players under their belt this punk band have been rocking socks off since 2010. Don't Fuck With Our Dreams is a jumping little folk punk number in great story telling tradition. It's pure fucking genius.

“Walked the flat city streets looking for a sign of a past you
And knee deep in alcohol and borrowed souls”