No One Was Driving the Car

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Label: Epitaph
Release Date: 5th September

La Dispute join a slew of post-hardcore bands building ever-stellar discographies and hinting at producing their best work yet. Lead singles sound menacing, unique but enthrallingly catchy. 

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. The fifth 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