La Dispute announce new album, No One Was Driving the Car

La Dispute have announced a new album. On September 5, the group will release their first new album in six years, No One Was Driving the Car, via Epitaph. Today they’ve shared new trio of songs, which you can hear below, along with a video for “I Shaved My Head.” The group is also touring this summer and fall. Check out those dates below.

Vocalist Jordan Dreyer released a statement about the song:

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.

La Dispute’s last album was 2019’s Panorama.

La Dispute 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

La Dispute 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
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