LA DISPUTE ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM 'NO ONE WAS DRIVING THE CAR'

LA DISPUTE ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM NO ONE WAS DRIVING THE CAR FOR SEPTEMBER 5TH VIA EPITAPH  ANNOUNCE NORTH AMERICAN AND EU TOURS  LISTEN TO THE ALBUM’S FIRST ACT HERE + WATCH THE VIDEO FOR “I SHAVED MY HEAD”

Photo Credit: Martin  Conceptual band La Dispute have announced their first album in six years No One Was Driving The Car for September 5th via Epitaph. Self produced and heavily inspired by the 2017 psychological thriller First Reformed, No One Was Driving The Car grapples 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 vocalist Jordan 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. Throughout the album, screens and cameras disrupt moments of transcendence. It happens alongside flashes of mundane suffering—frequent daydreams of drowning, flashbacks to eye-contact with dead animals, experiences of decaying relationships and secondhand suicides—while Dreyer yells with a more primal sense and sings in a more refined way, and the guitars have a sharper edge than ever before.  Today the band released the first act of the album consisting of three songs: “I Shaved My Head,” “Man with Hands and Ankles Bound” and “Autoficion Detail”. “I Shaved My Head” arrives with a video and can be seen here. The first act details a single night in crisis inspired by Schrader’s “man in the room” trope. Dreyer explains: It begins with a man examining his own slow dissociation from himself while shaving his head alone in a bathroom at night, then shifts through a neighbor’s open window to a conversation about control and desire, framed via the image of a man seen through it: bound on the floor with a woman standing before him, presumably a sex worker. when the woman exits the building (her companion still tied up), the narrator leaves his own, following less her than the idea represented by her inside his own struggle to reconnect to desires for life severed by time, self, and circumstance, or perhaps fleeing the implication he draws from the man left behind (his helplessness, maybe, or else his confidence to pursue something complicated where the narrator has so consistently failed). the third song follows him on that destination-less late night walk, among the street people and their disasters, ending where he had the whole night subconsciously always headed: the hospital where\ his partner works, at which point an internal reckoning occurs. The rest of the album will follow within acts until its conclusion in September. The band has also announced a North American tour. Kicking off September 5th at Detroit’s St. Andrew’s Hall the 14-date tour will hit Toronto, Brooklyn, DC, Nashville and more. Tickets for the tour go on sale this Friday May 16th. An EU tour will proceed the US tour. All dates can be found below.  No One Was Driving The Car tracklist  I Shaved My Head Man with Hands and Ankles Bound Autofiction Detail Environmental Catastrophe Film Self-Portrait Backwards The Field Sibling Fistfight 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 No One Was Driving the Car End Times Sermon

EU TOUR DATES 07/10 – Leeds, UK – Brudenell Social Club 07/11 – Cheltenham, UK – 2000 Trees Festival 07/12 – Cheltenham, UK – 2000 Trees Festival 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 Festival 07/20 – Cuxhaven, DE – Deichbrand Festival US TOUR DATES  09/05 – Detroit, MI – St. Andrew's Hall 09/06 – Toronto, ON – Phoenix Concert Theatre 09/07 – Cleveland, OH – Grog Shop 09/08 – Pittsburgh, PA – Spirit Hall 09/10 – Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club 09/11 – Brooklyn, NY – Warsaw 09/12 – Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer 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 Clubs 09/20 – Indianapolis, IN – Deluxe at Old National Centre