THE UNRAVELING OF Pup began with a piano. “I bought this Fender Rhodes a year ago,” says Stefan Babcock, the band’s singer and rhythm guitarist. “‘Four Chords’ was the first thing I wrote on it because I literally knew how to play just four chords.”
The song, which opens, started as a tossed-off joke about the guitar-based punk band wasting money on a piano. Then, five weeks into their 2021 recording sessions, bassist Nestor Chumak suggested they use the song for real — as the album’s first track.
