La Dispute
No One Was Driving The Car LP (coloured vinyl)

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 fifth studio LP is the first 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 officer 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 find comfort and a sense of security in an existence where we're often thrust into chaos without permission.

NEW / Released in 2025

Tracklist:

A1 I Shaved My Head

A2 Man With Hands And Ankles Bound

A3 Autofiction Detail

A4 Environmental Catastrophe Film

B1 Self-Portrait Backwards

B2 The Field

B3 Sibling Fistfight At Mom's Fiftieth / The Un-Sound

B4 Landlord Calls The Sheriff In

B5 Steve

C1 Top-Sellers Banquet

C2 Saturation Diver

C3 I Dreamt Of A Room With All My Friends I Could Not Get In

D1 No One Was Driving The Car

D2 End Times Sermon