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The Dream Is Over

PUP

The Dream Is Over

Second album from the Toronto punk quartet formerly know as Topanga

ADM rating[?]

8.0

Label
SideOneDummy Records
UK Release date
27/05/2016
US Release date
27/05/2016
  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 8.6 |   Sputnik Music (staff)

    One of the most unapologetically over-the-top punk albums in recent memory
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  4. 8.5 |   Beardfood

    This is urgent, uncomfortable yet poppy, and musically it magnificently comes together
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  5. 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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  6. 8.3 |   A.V. Club

    A record that perfectly captures the moment between bottoming out and rising above
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  7. 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. 8.0 |   Exclaim

    Bigger, heavier, faster and louder this time around
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  9. 8.0 |   DIY

    A tightly-wound coil of self-deprecation, wasted opportunity and bubbling-under garage punk
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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 7.0 |   Spin

    The dream is better off dead; PUP are at their best when they’re a mess
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  13. 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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