PUP - Morbid Stuff

I guess I'm kinda weird in that I could never get into their first LP outside of a few songs, but The Dream Is Over hooked me start to finish and Morbid Stuff certainly continues along those lines. Every song's a glorious anthemic wreck that'll get stuck in your brain after a single spin. I don't think there's a band that plays this frantic, semi-discordant, hook-filled, anxiety-ridden, hardcore-adjacent pop-punk as well as PUP does. Even more impressive are the times where they experiment a bit and really nail it, like "Scorpion Hill" that a has a slow, hymn-like, choir-sung intro and outro, or the pure breakdown-riddled hardcore tune "Full Blown Meltdown", or the closing track "City" that meanders slowly and hauntingly through half its runtime before crescendoing with a blast of post-hardcore.