LA DISPUTE ANNOUNCE TOUR

LA DISPUTE ANNOUNCE LEG 2 OF TOUR  NEW ALBUM NO ONE WAS DRIVING THE CAR AVAILABLE NOW  a distinct, ambitious, and captivating step up for La Dispute - PITCHFORK  ‘No One Was Driving the Car’ feels like an entire universe unto itself, so dense that it has its own gravitational pull. - UPROXX beautiful, intricate, both totally unbridled and carefully articulated. - ALTERNATIVE PRESS Conceptual band La Dispute released their excellent new album No One Was Driving the Car last month, and today they are back with new tour dates in support of it. Kicking off April 17th in Madison, WI, the 18-date second leg of the tour will hit Austin, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, and more before concluding with a hometown show in Grand Rapids, MI, on May 9th. Leg two follows a very successful first leg that saw sellouts in New York City, Detroit, Toronto, and many more. Tickets for leg two go on sale this Friday at 10:00 a.m. local time. Check here for more info. 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. Dryer expands “it felt apt as metaphor then (increasingly so since), not just for contemporary life generally, but for so many responses to it: how each of us thrust unwillingly and chaotically alive, to hurtle down some road toward death, look amidst uncertainty for faith someone or something outside ourselves helps steer the way.” 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.  Released in five parts each act has been arriving with a companion documentary directed by Martin. Watch them all here: Chapter I / Chapter II / Chapter III / Chapter IV / Chapter V  Listen to the album HERE Watch the video for “No One Was Driving the Car” HERE Watch the video for Saturation Diver” HERE Watch the video for “Sibling Fistfight at Mom’s Fiftieth / The Unsound” HERE Watch the video for “Environmental Catastrophe Film” HERE Watch The video for “I Shaved My Head” HERE Photo Credit: Martin  US TOUR DATES  APRIL 17 MADISON - THE MAJESTIC THEATER 18 LAWRENCE - GRANADA THEATER 20 DALLAS - FERRIS WHEELERS 21 AUSTIN - MOHAWK 22 HOUSTON - WHITE OAK MUSIC HALL 23 SAN ANTONIO - PAPER TIGER 25 MESA - NILE THEATER 26 LAS VEGAS - 24 OXFORD 27 POMONA - GLASS HOUSE 28 LOS ANGELES - BELASCO THEATRE 29 SAN FRANCISCO - AUGUST HALL MAY 1 SEATTLE - NEPTUNE 2 PORTLAND - REVOLUTION HALL 5 DENVER - SUMMIT 6 OMAHA - SLOWDOWN 7 MINNEAPOLIS - FIRST AVENUE 8 CHICAGO - THALIA HALL 9 GRAND RAPIDS - 20 MONROE

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