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Who Will Look After The Dogs?

PUP

Who Will Look After The Dogs?

Fifth album from the Toronto pop-punk quartet formerly know as Topanga

ADM rating[?]

7.1

Label
BMG
UK Release date
02/05/2025
US Release date
02/05/2025
  1. 10.0 |   Dork

    There are no easy answers, just four friends muddling their way through life and trying to put words to what their feeling. It’s the crowning glory of their peerless five-album run
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  2. 8.0 |   Kerrang!

    This is an album that really hurts – but it’s also a defiant declaration that pain doesn’t last forever, even if it sometimes feels like it might
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  3. 7.6 |   Spectrum Culture

    On their fifth album, the grandeur, pseudo-concept and meta elements of Toronto-punks PUP’s last album are mostly gone—however, self-excoriation, a big sound and a willingness to change things up have always been part of the PUP experience
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  4. 7.5 |   Northern Transmissions

    Delivers a treasure trove of head-bobbing catharsis. Who Will Look After the Dogs is messy, brutal, and also strangely comforting; it’s an album that doesn’t clean up after itself and doesn’t need to
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  5. 7.5 |   Under The Radar

    For all of their songs about how they’re all aimless screw-ups, PUP have proved themselves as one of their era’s most talented and consistent punk acts
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  6. 7.3 |   Pitchfork

    Embraces self-improvement with dialed-back hooks and urgent introspection—offering a rare example of a pop-punk band learning to age with grace
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  7. 7.0 |   Spill Magazine

    Pup does a great job of dressing up radio friendly alternative rock as chaotic on Who Will Look After The Dogs?
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  8. 7.0 |   Rolling Stone

    Toronto band take on personal crisis with a sense of humor and loud guitars
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  9. 6.6 |   Sputnik Music (staff)

    Who Will Look After the Dogs? is a long way from a perfect record, but this is no obstacle to respecting it on its own terms
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  10. 6.0 |   The Arts Desk

    A mixture of driving punk energy, wry humour and moments of vulnerability
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  11. 6.0 |   Far Out

    It’s all catharsis, set to an instrumentation that simply sounds like a really good rock show as they refused to overthink or overdo craft either and more than benefit from that no-brain, all-guts approach
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