PUP's classic LP 'The Dream Is Over' is turning 10 this year! To celebrate, SideOneDummy Records have collaborated with the band to create a special, lenticular (holographic) version of the iconic cover art, featuring a living, breathing flame.
The title of PUP's 2016 album 'The Dream Is Over' are the exact words a doctor spoke to singer/guitarist Stefan Babcock upon discovering one of his vocal cords had a small cyst and was beginning to hemorrhage. Given that the band, completed by drummer Zack Mykula, bassist Nestor Chumak and guitarist Steve Sladkowski, played over 450 shows in the last two years in support of its self-titled debut, it's perhaps not surprising that it happened. But while PUP had to end 2015 by canceling its last couple of shows, by announcing The Dream Is Over the way they did onstage at a sold out show in Brooklyn, the Toronto four piece proved that the exact opposite is true. 'The Dream Is Over' is visible, visceral proof that the dream is still alive. It's just that, after two exhausting years on the road, it turns out that the dream is just very different to what the four of them thought or imagined it would be like.
The title of PUP's 2016 album 'The Dream Is Over' are the exact words a doctor spoke to singer/guitarist Stefan Babcock upon discovering one of his vocal cords had a small cyst and was beginning to hemorrhage. Given that the band, completed by drummer Zack Mykula, bassist Nestor Chumak and guitarist Steve Sladkowski, played over 450 shows in the last two years in support of its self-titled debut, it's perhaps not surprising that it happened. But while PUP had to end 2015 by canceling its last couple of shows, by announcing The Dream Is Over the way they did onstage at a sold out show in Brooklyn, the Toronto four piece proved that the exact opposite is true. 'The Dream Is Over' is visible, visceral proof that the dream is still alive. It's just that, after two exhausting years on the road, it turns out that the dream is just very different to what the four of them thought or imagined it would be like.
TRACK LISTING
1. If This Tour Doesn't Kill You, I Will
2. DVP
3. Doubts
4. Sleep In The Heat
5. The Coast
6. Old Wounds
7. My Life Is Over & I Couldn't Be Happier
8. Can't Win
9. Familiar Patterns
10. Pine Point
