La Dispute - Panorama (March 22, 2019) Album • Page 2

FrankieThe4th · Dec 4, 2018

"anxiety panorama" is a perfectly succinct description of the band's entire discography

JaytotheGee · Dec 4, 2018

Here for it

bedwettingcosmo · Dec 4, 2018

Hardcore luminaries La Dispute have announced their fourth album Panorama available March 22nd via Epitaph Records. Their first album in 4 years and first with the label, Panorama was produced by the band in tandem with return producer Will Yip (Quicksand, Braid, Code Orange, Nothing, Title Fight) combining jazz, rock, slowcore, noise, hardcore among other influences over the span of 10 tracks. It’s a highly ambitious and deeply affecting body of work that filters narrative storytelling through a personal lens, like a set of Joan Didion essays set to music.

Where the past two albums had vocalist Jordan Dreyer delving further into fictional subject matter, it’s with Panorama that the band has created the most personal project since their breakthrough Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair, an album whose influence has been palpable within the genre over the course of the past decade. Most of what happens on Panorama takes place on the route Jordan and his partner would drive from their home in the East Hills neighborhood of Grand Rapids to the city of Lowell, where she grew up. Everywhere along the drive are places where, in varying degrees of recency, people have died: a pond where a man drowned walking home in the winter, multiple places where people crashed driving drunk or were killed in car accidents, and one place where years prior a city worker found a Jane Doe decomposed. Panorama is intended to be a wide angled shot of that drive, with the stories of those tragedies becoming focal points but filtered through the sieve of the couple's life together.

La Dispute - Panorama

Carrow · Dec 4, 2018

Press Release said:

Hardcore luminaries La Dispute have announced their fourth album, Panorama, available March 22nd via Epitaph Records. Their first album in 4 years and first with the label, Panorama was produced by the band in tandem with return producer Will Yip (Quicksand, Braid, Code Orange, Nothing, Title Fight) combining jazz, rock, slowcore, noise, hardcore among other influences over the span of 10 tracks. It’s a highly ambitious and deeply affecting body of work that filters narrative storytelling through a personal lens, like a set of Joan Didion essays set to music.

Where the past two albums had vocalist Jordan Dreyer delving further into fictional subject matter, it’s with Panorama that the band has created the most personal project since their breakthrough Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair, an album whose influence has been palpable within the genre over the course of the past decade. Most of what happens on Panorama takes place on the route Jordan and his partner would drive from their home in the East Hills neighbourhood of Grand Rapids to the city of Lowell, where she grew up. Everywhere along the drive are places where, in varying degrees of recency, people have died: a pond where a man drowned walking home in the winter, multiple places where people crashed driving drunk or were killed in car accidents, and one place where years prior a city worker found a Jane Doe decomposed. Panorama is intended to be a wide angled shot of that drive, with the stories of those tragedies becoming focal points but filtered through the sieve of the couple's life together.

For the first 2 singles from the album, illustrator Sarah Schmidt beautifully animates 'ROSE QUARTZ / FULTON STREET I', bringing to life the drive from East Hills to Lowell, MI, with muted colours and a unique anime-esque style. You can watch that up top via NPR.

La Dispute have maintained the same attitude they started with since they formed in 2004. They are a band figuring out how to live meaningfully while also trying to make meaningful art without compromise. Panorama, then, is another chapter in a discography that tells everyday stories in a remarkable way. It takes you deep within the heart of the world we live in, which may not always be a comfortable or comforting place to be, but at the very least it’s a reminder that we’re not there alone.

Pre-order Panorama at: https://www.ladispute.org/

sophos34 · Dec 4, 2018

wow so this is pretty great

bedwettingcosmo · Dec 4, 2018

looks like preorders are up https://kingsroadmerch.com/epitaph-records/

sophos34 · Dec 4, 2018

damn so this seems darker than rooms but has that record's masterful writing style

Carrow · Dec 4, 2018

mmmm this Kings Road Merch variant looks sick af

bedwettingcosmo · Dec 4, 2018

this shirt is so sick

zmtr · Dec 4, 2018

omggggg

Gnarly Charlie · Dec 4, 2018

bedwettingcosmo said:

this shirt is so sick

That is hands down one of the ugliest band shirts I've ever seen. Looks like something an Xtreme rollerblader kid would be wearing in a Capri Sun commercial circa 1999

Joe4th · Dec 4, 2018

On first listen I wasn't crazy about it, it threw me for a loop. But a few more listens I'm getting into it. This album is going to get real weird I think

zmtr · Dec 4, 2018

Gnarly Charlie said:

That is hands down one of the ugliest band shirts I've ever seen. Looks like something an Xtreme rollerblader kid would be wearing in a Capri Sun commercial circa 1999

failing to see the problem with this tbh

bedwettingcosmo · Dec 4, 2018

Gnarly Charlie said:

That is hands down one of the ugliest band shirts I've ever seen. Looks like something an Xtreme rollerblader kid would be wearing in a Capri Sun commercial circa 1999

Hahahahahaha

Drew Beringer · Dec 4, 2018

Let’s fucking go!

ImAMetaphor · Dec 4, 2018

Don't think I want to listen to any singles but damn that's going to be hard haha

SpyKi · Dec 4, 2018

bedwettingcosmo said:

La Dispute - Panorama

This is all very exciting.

bedwettingcosmo · Dec 4, 2018

Joe4th said:

On first listen I wasn't crazy about it, it threw me for a loop. But a few more listens I'm getting into it. This album is going to get real weird I think

"combining jazz, rock, slowcore, noise, hardcore among other influences over the span of 10 tracks. It’s a highly ambitious and deeply affecting body of work that filters narrative storytelling through a personal lens, like a set of Joan Didion essays set to music."

its gonna get hella weird

Drew Beringer · Dec 4, 2018

Carrow said:

mmmm this Kings Road Merch variant looks sick af

Link?

zmtr · Dec 4, 2018

Absolutely love the new song. Holy shit. More than almost anything from Rooms

ImAMetaphor · Dec 4, 2018

I wore my La Dispute hoodie today, y'all can thank me

Drew Beringer · Dec 4, 2018

Holy shit what. A. Fucking song

StormAndTheSun · Dec 4, 2018

ImAMetaphor said:

Don't think I want to listen to any singles but damn that's going to be hard haha

After listening to this first single, I think this is a good idea. Its super good but feels like it was very consciously put as the opener.

smowashere · Dec 4, 2018

Ready for this jelly

Carrow · Dec 4, 2018

Drew Beringer said:

Link?

vinyly goodness

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