Each week, Consequence’s Songs of the Week column spotlights the perfect new tracks from the earlier seven days and takes a have a look at notable releases. Discover our new favorites and extra on our Top Songs playlist, and for different nice songs from rising artists, you’ll be able to hearken to our New Sounds playlist. This week, PUP and Jeff Rosenstock be a part of forces on the incandescent new single “Get Dumber.”
Shit feels fairly dumb proper now, no? Pointless commerce wars, jacked influencers plunging their faces into bowls of water, high-level authorities officers not understanding how group chats work… it doesn’t precisely appear to be we’re residing in an age of enlightenment. Fortunately, our good buddies from up north PUP have a well timed new ripper for moshing whereas our leaders repeatedly minimize themselves on Hanlon’s Razor.
After all, “Get Dumber,” the brand new track from PUP’s upcoming album Who Will Look After the Dogs?, isn’t essentially in regards to the stupidity of 2025. The tune — which options indie-punk royalty Jeff Rosenstock — as an alternative is a cathartic, angsty rager that sees Rosenstock and PUP frontman Stefan Babcock each grappling with the absurdity of the touring life and rebelling in opposition to put-downs from, presumably, people with “actual” jobs and 401(ok)s.
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“Seventeen nights on this coffin/ Nobody cares in the event you’ve misplaced it/ When there’s seventeen arms in your pocket,” they scream by layers of vocal compression within the opening verse. By the following verse, they’ve turned their inward ire out: “You lastly name, it’s so smug/ ‘You continue to enjoying these songs? It’s so embarrassing.’”
Nonetheless, whereas the literal lyrical content material focuses on the plight of a working musician, the blistering guitar tones and shout-along choruses (“I don’t wish to hear who you’re dragging below/ It looks as if yearly, I swear that you simply’re getting dumber”) communicate to a common, extraordinarily topical disillusionment. All of the whereas, it’s obtained the power of, “I hate this shit, and the ship goes down — I don’t want YOU to inform me that.” It’s all a bit of too relatable if I’m being sincere.
— Jonah Krueger
