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You can’t do that.” But by the end of it, having been locked inside this mansion for a month and a half, we were all like, “Yes, that’s the best idea I’ve ever heard.

If we sat down on the first day with “Four Chords” and said, “Yes, we’re going to play this song on the same piano that ‘Fake Empire’ was recorded on,” we immediately would’ve said, “No, that’s a disgrace. It’s a snapshot of us throwing caution to the wind and saying yes to creative ideas that made us laugh: What if instead of a guitar solo, there’s a Mars Volta-style saxophone freakout? Going out of the bridge, what if we do an acoustic kumbaya campfire guitar moment? It’s a bunch of ideas that shouldn’t work together when abstracted like this. Steve Sladkowski: Zack and Nestor brought that in during the time crunch. How did you get the puzzle pieces to fit together on that one?

BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE BEAUTIFUL PROBLEMS WEIRD VOICE FULL

Is Filing for Bankruptcy,” which is full of diverging guitar lines and blown-out solos. When the band invites you to sing along, it feels less like being drafted into an emotional war and more like a Nerf gun fight with your friends: If you’re going to take some damage, you may as well have a blast.Ĭonversely, the album ends with “PUPTHEBAND Inc. Perhaps that’s why their records are an instant mood-booster. PUP sound happiest when they’re taking shots at their own mental illness through punchlines, gang vocals, and chipper riffs. The new songs are boisterous, catchy, and meta while also earnestly wading through the nuances of depression in a manner often reserved for “confessional” indie rock. “I have negative self-talk to a degree that’s not normal,” says Mykula, “and there were huge advantages to growing together in the house as we made the record.” As Sladkowski puts it, “Even though it was an intense pressure cooker, it was the culmination of something, whether we recognized it or not: We are a support system for each other.” But more important was their renewed bond. The 18-hour days shifted things into perspective: There was a readiness to experiment with synths, center the piano, and lean further into joke songs than ever before. Over five weeks, Babcock, guitarist Steve Sladkowski, bassist Nestor Chumak, and drummer Zack Mykula locked themselves in a bat-infested mansion-turned-studio in Connecticut to create the album with producer Peter Katis, best known for his work with the National.

Join us for a rare insight into the people and processes that have made football what it is today.That feeling of normalcy-or rather, the absence of constant anxiety and despair-was initially spurred by the recording of THE UNRAVELING OF PUPTHEBAND last year. It is estimated that more than half the population of the planet watched the FIFA World Cup in 2018. Produced in partnership with the National Football Museum in Manchester, the show reveals the master-planning of the world’s most significant football stadiums, the design innovation used in today’s boots, how the graphic design of team badges, kits and posters shape a club's identity and how grassroots initiatives are pushing back against the sport’s commercialisation.Īs the world’s most popular sport, football has a truly international dedicated fan base. Take a journey through over 500 objects, films and interviews in sporting performance, kit development, and stadium design and immerse yourself in the stories of club legacies and game legends including Messi, Pelé, George Best and Diego Maradona. The exhibition explores the story behind football, unpicking how design has been used to push the game to new limits.