The Get Up Kids have 'Problems' they need to discuss
"You always think every record you make should make all the other records you've made obsolete," says The Get Up Kids' Matt Pryor, as he dodges construc...
"You always think every record you make should make all the other records you've made obsolete," says The Get Up Kids' Matt Pryor, as he dodges construction traffic while walking his dogs around the neighbourhood.
We're talking about ‘Problems', the Kansas City indie-rockers sixth album, and follow-up to last year's rapturously-received four-song ripper of an EP, ‘Kicker'. It was a release that put The Get Up Kids back on the map, following the mixed response to 2011's challenging ‘There Are Rules', which saw the group drift through the following seven years in a state of partial cyrogenesis.
This time, however, with the buzz around the band firmly back, ‘Problems' is a confident return that marries the best of The Get Up Kids' trademark indie-rock sound with the sharpest and most intelligent songwriting the quintet has produced. Indeed, seeing ‘Kicker' as an appropriate jumping off point serves to contextualize just what The Get Up Kids are – and where they're going – in 2019.






