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 ffth studio LP is the frst 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 ofcer 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 fnd comfort and a sense of security in an existence where we're often thrust into chaos without permission
LP Indies Only Green Smoke 2LP Tracks: I Shaved My Head / Man with Hands and Ankles Bound / Autofction Detail / Environmental Catastrophe Film / Self- Portrait Backwards / The Field / Sibling Fistfght at Mom's Fiftieth / The Un-sound / Landlord Calls the Sheriff In / Steve / Top- Sellers Banquet / Saturation Diver / I Dreamt of a Room with All My Friends I Could Not Get In / No One Was Driving the Car / End Times Sermon
