This Place Sucks Ass LP

Album Details

After recording their acclaimed 2019 album, Morbid Stuff, PUP was left with a handful of songs that didn’t make the final cut, largely because they were too frenetic or too unhinged. And for an album that fantasized about the world exploding, that’s saying a lot. The excluded tracks are now seeing the light via a six-song EP, This Place Sucks Ass (November 6, 2020, Rise Records).
The critical darling band has been met with their share of success over the last seven years—winning a Juno Award for Alternative Album of the Year, being shortlisted for the Polaris Music Prize, write ups and accolades everywhere from the New York Times to Pitchfork to NPR, performing on NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers, and playing venues around the world packed with rabid fans. Culminating in This Place Sucks Ass, a document of the band PUP is—at times thoughtful and introspective and at other times wildly cathartic. And they hope that fans will take its sentiments of anger, frustration, and bitterness that run through ‘This Place Sucks Ass’ and find collective empowerment and joy in turning them outward along with them. “Everything sucks and that’s OK, because it sucks for everybody,” says Babcock. “And we can make it a little bit better by being together.”