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 friends from up north PUP have a well timed new ripper for moshing whereas our leaders repeatedly lower themselves on Hanlon’s Razor.
In fact, “Get Dumber,” the brand new tune 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 a substitute 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, of us with “actual” jobs and 401(ok)s.
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“Seventeen nights on this coffin/ Nobody cares in case you’ve misplaced it/ When there’s seventeen palms in your pocket,” they scream via layers of vocal compression within the opening verse. By the subsequent verse, they’ve turned their inward ire out: “You lastly name, it’s so boastful/ ‘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 underneath/ 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 vitality of, “I hate this shit, and the ship goes down — I don’t want YOU to inform me that.” It’s all slightly too relatable if I’m being trustworthy.
— Jonah Krueger
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