THE EXPLOSIVE REALIZATION OF FUTILITY AND FEELING OF WASTED EFFORTS
BOSTON | SEPTEMBER 24, 2021 When is it time to give up on your dreams? It’s a scary thought and one that is heavily explored in “Bed Song”, Bullpup’s final single off their forthcoming album Be Evil which drops on October 29th. This song explores the dreaded notion of futility and the feeling of ‘what is it all for?’. The song’s writer, Trevor Sullivan, asks himself these dangerous questions after feeling like he has been at times running in place, ending up in the same spot, same bed, day after day.
Both an unhinged emo alt-rock band and brilliantly arranged theater troupe, Bullpup delivers a soundscape that feels larger than life while exposing the bare bones of Trevor’s earnest and painful lyricism:
“Forgive me for being a downer,
I hope you understand,
Mommy said I could be anything,
If I believed in my blessed hands”
The instrumentation combines with the pleading nature of the words, shifting from a cavernous ballad to a hard hitting math rock. Words and music alike start small and slowly build up to a cacophonous mental break that reads somewhere between a breakthrough and admission of defeat at the end of the song.
“Bed Song”, in addition to the rest of Bullpup’s upcoming album, had an unorthodox production life, to say the least. Due to Covid-19, the song was written with all of Bullpup sheltered in place at their homes, passing demos back and forth through online calls. Soon after pre-production, the band quarantined in the studio at Behind The Curtains Media with producer and idol of the band Michael Abiuso to record the track.
ABOUT:
Bullpup formed in a small cow town in northern Massachusetts where long time friends Brian Bisson, Trevor Sullivan, and Tim Collins joined up with Jon Garniss in the hopes to make a musical theatre inspired emo band that could change the world. Always balancing mania and precision in their live show and leaving stages covered in blood and glitter, they still felt something was missing after their first Release “No One Must Die” in 2019. Turning to resident guitar speed demon and childhood friend Robby Beland to fill the void, Bullpup’s diverse soundscape was finally complete. Armed to the teeth with influences like My Chemical Romance while focusing on a narrative voice similar to Spring Awakening, Bullpup now aims to meld musical theater and emo tropes, writing songs that match glamor, filth, and aggression filled instrumentals to lyrics laced with clever wordplay and blunt, realistic introspection in an attempt to make their world a better place.
PRESS:
Phork August 5th, 2021
“Bullpup has nailed the level of frustration, depression, and struggle with brutally honest lyrics, worn-out screams, and tireless drums.”
The Indy Review June 21st, 2021
“Massachusetts band Bullpup have only been around for a few years, but based on their latest single, “Veronica Sawyer’s Big Day Out”, off their upcoming album Be Evil, they’ve honed in on their sound masterfully, and are showing they’ve got the lyrical substance to back-up their fleshed out sound.”
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