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9.0
129169
9.0 |
Clash
This feels like everything that punk should be in 2022. It’s honest, dark, funny, tragic, moving and incredibly catchy
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8.0
129170
8.0 |
Kerrang!
It’s perhaps something only they could pull off, but pulled it off PUP absolutely have, and with raw, emotional vulnerability to boot
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8.0
129171
8.0 |
Northern Transmissions
The band manage to hit the sweet spot between uplifting and anthemic
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8.0
129173
8.0 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
A jittery, joyous, glorious, gleaming mess: substantially less coherent than their previous outings, but no less endearing
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8.0
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8.0 |
NME
This self-reflexive fourth album finds the quartet grappling with fame, fortune and their own inclinations to fuck it all up. File under: loveably dysfunctional
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8.0
129228
8.0 |
All Music
Biting the hand that feeds is one of punk's great traditions, and it's a relief to find Pup's shambling spirit unsullied by their present status
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8.0
129267
8.0 |
Punk News
Their most ambitious. And I would say, their best
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8.0
130303
8.0 |
Upset
Ridiculous? Unquestionably. Genius? Quite possibly
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7.8
129236
7.8 |
Pitchfork
The Toronto band returns with a supremely hooky, slightly more polished album about harnessing dread to make music to harness dread to
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7.0
129172
7.0 |
Exclaim
If there's anything to be said about THE UNRAVELING, it's that PUP have remained true to themselves
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7.0
129269
7.0 |
Paste Magazine
Even if you’re not sold on the poor production choices or some of Babcock’s lesser lyrics on THE UNRAVELING OF PUPTHEBAND, all of that gets melted away as soon as those enormous choruses and bended guitars chime back in
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6.0
129293
6.0 |
Spectrum Culture
It’s clear that the band is experimenting this time around, even attempting to construct a quasi-narrative framing PUP as a product to be sold, but the best of The Unraveling is reflected in their tried-and-true formula
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