In 2024, as Pavlov’s Dog celebrated the release of the career-spanning retrospective box set Essential Recordings 1974–2018, the band was already hard at work on a new album of original material. That album, entitled Wonderlust, has now arrived on Ruf Records—a half-century after their debut LP Pampered Menial, with the hit “Julia” briefly making Pavlov’s Dog the darlings of the 1970s progressive rock scene.