Pup – The Dream Is Over (CD)

Canada's PUP arrived at their second album having already survived a near-breakup, with frontman Stefan Babcock told by a doctor he might never sing again. That crisis became the fuel, pushing the Toronto four-piece toward some of the most viscerally honest punk rock of the decade. Raw, self-aware, and relentlessly energetic, *The Dream Is Over* turned personal catastrophe into communal catharsis.