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9.0
87392
9.0 |
Gig Soup
In a genre filled with flaws, Toronto’s PUP have broken the mould and made a record worth drooling for
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9.0
87515
9.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Turning it up to eleven, PUP’s second album is a tongue-in-cheek rampage through everything that matters
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8.6
87288
8.6 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
One of the most unapologetically over-the-top punk albums in recent memory
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8.5
88566
8.5 |
Beardfood
This is urgent, uncomfortable yet poppy, and musically it magnificently comes together
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8.5
88733
8.5 |
Spectrum Culture
The Dream is Over is gleeful, snarling, not-quite-nihilism and it’s one of the best, least responsible parties of the year
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8.3
87285
8.3 |
A.V. Club
A record that perfectly captures the moment between bottoming out and rising above
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8.0
87286
8.0 |
All Music
The Toronto-based quartet come off even more ferocious than before on this spirited ten-song effort
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8.0
87287
8.0 |
Exclaim
Bigger, heavier, faster and louder this time around
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8.0
87284
8.0 |
DIY
A tightly-wound coil of self-deprecation, wasted opportunity and bubbling-under garage punk
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7.8
87326
7.8 |
Pitchfork
A glorious half-hour of redlining guitars and pile-on group chants that turn self-loathing and self-deprecation into a sort of superpower
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7.5
87289
7.5 |
Consequence Of Sound
For the most part, The Dream Is Over doesn’t advance the agenda PUP laid out on their self-titled, though it does hone it to a sharper point
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7.0
87290
7.0 |
Spin
The dream is better off dead; PUP are at their best when they’re a mess
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7.0
87376
7.0 |
God Is In The TV
There may not be an awful lot new on offer from The Dream is Over but PUP are doing their thing so well that it’s unlikely anyone will be disappointed
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