La Dispute to return with new album No One Was Driving The Car and tour

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Grand Rapids progressive post-hardcore veterans La Dispute have introduced their first album in six years, No One Was Driving The Automotive, due Sept. 5 by way of Epitaph. The self-produced album is claimed to be impressed by the 2017 psychological thriller First Reformed, and the title comes from a quote by a police officer a couple of deadly self-driving Tesla crash that vocalist Jordan Dreyer learn in a information article. The album is damaged up into a number of acts, and in the present day the primary act — the album’s first three songs — has been launched. Dreyer says:

It begins with a person analyzing his personal gradual dissociation from himself whereas shaving his head alone in a rest room at night time, then shifts by a neighbor’s open window to a dialog about management and need, framed by way of the picture of a person seen by it: sure on the ground with a lady standing earlier than him, presumably a intercourse employee. When the girl exits the constructing (her companion nonetheless tied up), the narrator leaves his personal, following much less her than the thought represented by her inside his personal battle to reconnect to needs for all times severed by time, self, and circumstance, or maybe fleeing the implication he attracts from the person left behind (his helplessness, perhaps, or else his confidence to pursue one thing difficult the place the narrator has so persistently failed). The third tune follows him on that destination-less late night time stroll, among the many road individuals and their disasters, ending the place he had the entire night time subconsciously all the time headed: the hospital the place his companion works, at which level an inside reckoning happens.

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Together with releasing the primary three songs, La Dispute have additionally put out a video for album opener “I Shaved My Head” (directed by Steven Paseshnik and La Dispute’s personal Adam Vass), and you’ll take a look at that video and stream the opposite two tracks beneath.

La Dispute will help No One Was Driving The Automotive on a North American tour that begins the identical day the album comes out. Discover all dates for that tour beneath as effectively.

La Dispute – No One Was Driving The Automotive tracklist
1. “I Shaved My Head”
2. “Man with Palms and Ankles Sure”
3. “Autofiction Element”
4. “Environmental Disaster Movie”
5. “Self-Portrait Backwards”
6. “The Subject”
7. “Sibling Fistfight at Mother’s Fiftieth / The Un-Sound”
8. “Landlord Calls the Sheriff In”
9. “Steve”
10. “Prime-Sellers Banquet”
11. “Saturation Diver”
12. “I Dreamt of a Room with All My Mates”
13. “No One Was Driving the Automotive”
14. “Finish Occasions Sermon”

La Dispute 2025 tour dates
EU/UK TOUR DATES
07/10 – Leeds, UK – Brudenell Social Membership
07/11 – Cheltenham, UK – 2000 Timber Pageant
07/12 – Cheltenham, UK – 2000 Timber Pageant
07/14 – Hannover, DE – MusikZentrum
07/15 – Nürnberg, DE – Hirsch
07/16 – Karlsruhe, DE – Substage
07/18 – Cologne, DE – Open Stage Suedbruecke (w/ Enter Shikari)
07/19 – Herk-de-Stad, BE – Rock Herk Pageant
07/20 – Cuxhaven, DE – Deichbrand Pageant

NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES
09/05 – Detroit, MI – St. Andrew’s Corridor
09/06 – Toronto, ON – Phoenix Live performance Theatre
09/07 – Cleveland, OH – Grog Store
09/08 – Pittsburgh, PA – Spirit Corridor
09/10 – Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Membership
09/11 – Brooklyn, NY – Warsaw
09/12 – Philadelphia, PA – Union Switch
09/13 – Washington, DC – Howard Theater
09/14 – Charlotte, NC – Neighborhood Theatre
09/16 – Orlando, FL – The Beacham
09/17 – Atlanta, GA – Masquerade
09/18 – Nashville, TN – Basement East
09/19 – Columbus, OH – King of Golf equipment
09/20 – Indianapolis, IN – Deluxe at Previous Nationwide Centre