Music Archives - LA Dispute

Enviromental Catastrophe Film 7″ Vinyl – Black

allotmentedd — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 15:40:48 +0000

Environmental Catastrophe Film - 7"
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NO ONE WAS DRIVING THE CAR – CD

allotmentedd — Fri, 02 May 2025 13:45:48 +0000

It’s been six years since La Dispute released their last album, Panorama. Since then, the Michigan post-hardcore band—made up of Jordan Dreyer on vocals, Brad Vander Lugt on drums, Chad Morgan-Sterenberg and Corey Stroffolino on guitar, and Adam Vass on bass—dealt with the stagnance of the pandemic, celebrated the ten-year anniversaries of Wildlife and Rooms Of The House, and began working on No One Was Driving The Car. Thefifth studio LP is the first entirely produced by the group, and it came together in Grand Rapids and Detroit, the United Kingdom, Australia, and the Philippines: “I think the change in environment was really helpful to breathing new life into the process each time we came back to it,” Dreyer says.

Partly inspired by the 2017 psychological thriller First Reformed, No One Was Driving The Car reckons with malaise in the shadow of the looming apocalypse, which has noticeably been worsened by the advancement of tech. The title comes from a quote from a police officer Dreyer read in a news article about a lethal self-driving Tesla crash, an absurd event which raises questions about the amount of control we have in our own lives. In fourteen dynamic tracks, the band grapples with the existential topic and the human need to find comfort and a sense of security in an existence where we’re often thrust into chaos without permission. Dreyer yells with a more primal sense and sings in a more refined way, and the guitars have a sharper edge than ever before. “As much as I don’t enjoy the creative process because it’s taxing and often not fun, I also think it’s the most fun that I ever have,” Dreyer contemplates. “It’s the revelations you make, the breakthroughs. It’s banging your head against a wall and suddenly something clicks in a way that feels almost divine, like it came from somewhere else.

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NO ONE WAS DRIVING THE CAR – Eco mix LP (2×12″)

allotmentedd — Fri, 02 May 2025 13:39:59 +0000

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NO ONE WAS DRIVING THE CAR – Deluxe LP (2×12″)

allotmentedd — Fri, 02 May 2025 13:32:53 +0000

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Wildlife (LP / CD)

allotmentedd — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 09:37:03 +0000

Tracklist:

1. A Departure
2. Harder Harmonies
3. St. Paul Missionary Babtist Church Blues
4. Edit Your Hometown
5. A Letter
6. Safer In The Forest/Love Song For Poor Michigan
7. The Most Beautiful Bitter Fruit
8. A Poem
9. King Park
10. Edward Benz, 27 Times
11. I See Everything
12. A Broken Jar
13. All Our Bruised Bodies And The Whole Heart Shrinks
14. You And I In Unison

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Vancouver (LP)

allotmentedd — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 09:33:13 +0000

Debut EP, originally released April 14, 2006.

2024 pressing on Cloudy Pink and 2025 pressing on Eco Mix

Tracklist:
1. Future Wars
2. A Word of Welcome and Warning
3. See You in Vancouver
4. To Withstand the Force of Storms
5. He Is Here, He Is Not Afraid
6. The Surgeon and the Scientist
7. Fairmount
8. Untitled

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Here, Hear IV (LP / Tape)

allotmentedd — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 10:24:44 +0000

Here, Hear is an ongoing creative series born in 2007 as a way to deepen understanding of themes and ideas present in proper album releases through added musical and lyrical context for listeners interested in small peeks behind the songwriting curtain.

Changing forms, approaches, and mediums periodically throughout it’s history, the current iteration of the project exists as creative writing prompts introduced and followed by one individual member before being passed along to the others one by one for contribution in a sort of musical game of telephone. The end results are songs written and recorded layer by layer, member by member, all around a central suggestion or restriction, discussed at length on Patreon and via recorded podcast conversations dissecting the experience.

The most recent entry, titled “16,” began with a prompt from bass player Adam Vass called “This Song Will Self-Destruct” where contributing members were challenged to “break” something periodically as the composition progressed. The final product is what you hear: five musicians who took five different approaches to self-destruction, for a host of different reasons, and a song that slowly degrades as it heads toward its end, though it remains fully listenable despite the nature of the prompt.

In partnership with Here, Hear, the last few years have seen the introduction of a new writing exercise called MEANTIME, which flip La Dispute’s standard music-first approach to songcraft in favor of entries constructed by individual instrumentalists around spoken vocal recordings. Born from a desire to remain creatively engaged while apart during COVID shutdown, MEANTIME songs are poems before songs, words written and recorded that come to life sonically only when passed from vocalist Jordan Dreyer to one of the band’s musicians for structure, texture, and mood.

Here, Hear IV

Release Date: 31st May 2024

Tracklist:
1. Thirteen
2. Fourteen
3. Fifteen
4. Sixteen
5. Kinross
6. The Crash
7. Light And Shadows
8. Reformation

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Rooms Of The House (LP / CD)

allotmentedd — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 14:17:46 +0000

Tracklist:

1. Hudsonville, MI 1956
2. First Reactions After Falling Through The Ice
3. Woman (In Mirror)
4. Scenes From Highways 1981/2009
5. For Mayor In Splitsville
6. 35
7. Stay Happy There
8. The Child We Lost 1963
9. Woman (Reading)
10. Extraordinary Dinner Party
11. Objects In Space [...]

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Tiny Dots (LP + DVD)

allotmentedd — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 14:16:14 +0000

Tracklist:

1. A
2. B
3. C
4. D
5. E
6. G
7. A Departure
8. For Mayor In Splitsville
9. Woman (in mirror)
10. St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church Blues
11. A Broken Jar
12. Objects In Space [...]

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Somewhere at the Bottom … (LP / CD)

allotmentedd — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 14:13:38 +0000

Tracklist:

1. Such Small Hands
2. Said The King To The River
3. New Storms For Older Lovers
4. Damaged Goods
5. Fall Down, Never Get Back Up Again
6. Bury Your Flame
7. Last Blues For Bloody Knuckles
8. The Castle Builders
9. Andria
10. Then Again, Maybe You Were Right
11. Sad Prayers For Guilty Bodies
12. The Last Lost Continent
13. Nobody, Not Even The Rain [...]

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