Watch PUP play the 'Tiny Desk (Home) Concert'

PUP are the latest guests on NPR's series. From Stefan Babcock's living room in Toronto, the group played a suite titled "Rot", "Kids", "Reservoir" and "Scorpion Hill". You can watch the 17-minute set below.

PUP released the EP This Place Sucks Ass, from which "Rot" was pulled, last October. On it, they collaborated with thrilling pop-punk artists like Charly Bliss. Specifically, the track and video "It's Christmas and I Fucking Miss You" is one such collaboration. They released their third studio album, Morbid Stuff, in 2019.

A few words about the band

PUP (short for Pathetic Use of Potential) is a Canadian rock band formed in Toronto, Ontario in 2010. Their original name was Topanga. PUP's self-titled debut album was released on October 8, 2013 through Royal Mountain Records. In December 2013, PUP signed with SideOneDummy Records and re-released their debut album in the United States on April 8, 2014.

The band was in the studio in late 2015 recording their second album The Dream Is Over, which was released on May 27, 2016 through SideOneDummy. The band's third album, titled Morbid Stuff, was released on April 5, 2019. From it, This Place Sucks Ass, a six-track EP, was released on October 27, 2020.

Bassist Nestor Chumak, guitarist Steve Sladkowski and drummer Zack Mykula have been friends since childhood. Two of them met in third grade and the third one met them in high school at Humberside Collegiate Institute. Throughout their childhood, they played together in various bands.

Singer and guitarist Stefan Babcock also grew up playing in bands around Toronto. During high school, Babcock was the main guitarist for a ska band called Stop Drop N Skank that he formed with some of his classmates at Earl Haig High School.