As its title suggests, PUP’s 2022 record, The Unraveling of PUPTheBand was an album that tackled the hardships, mishaps and uncertainties of the Canadian quartet doing what they do in the aftermath of the pandemic. But soon after the band announced that record, it was actually the life of frontman Stefan Babcock that started to unravel. In characteristically existential and nihilistic fashion, the first thing the singer wrote at the top of what would become his notes for this record would also become its title: ‘Who will look after the dogs?’ It’s an amusingly overdramatic question and a serious one that reflects the trauma that both drives and fills the record. That’s nothing new. PUP – completed by guitarist Steve Sladkowski, bassist Nestor Chumak and drummer Zack Mykul...