La Dispute have unveiled the second act of their forthcoming album No One Was Driving the Automotive, arriving September fifth by way of Epitaph.
The nine-minute “Environmental Disaster Movie” is a single monitor damaged up into three components and showcases the Michigan band’s extremely conceptual songcraft. The association geese and weaves across the narrative thread of the lyrics, the group meting out devastating emotional post-hardcore that’s knowledgeable by the open-ended nature of prog and post-rock.
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Vocalist Jordan Dreyer pulled again the curtain on the bold monitor within the following press launch assertion:
“the second act—kind of the thematic heart of the document—is a single music break up into three components. it begins with a boy beside a creek-bed in a wooded space close to residence, holding a snapping turtle above the flowing water, earlier than tracing its winding path to the river round which the town was first constructed, and thru a quick historical past of the town itself—its settlement, the creation of the christian reformed church, and the furnishings trade that dominated its early financial development.
from there we return to the boy beside the creek. he sees his personal lack of management within the flailing creature he holds, then once more at church, listening to a sermon delivered on the calvinist doctrines of predestination, man’s innate and whole depravity, and the irresistible grace of his household’s god. on the finish of it, he returns for the primary time in maturity to that very same church, on the funeral of an outdated good friend lifeless by suicide, from which the dialog shifts again to the creek as metaphor for all times and time, and to what we finally keep the least management over in life: that we are able to change neither the very fact it strikes nor the path it ceaselessly does.
within the closing part, the town’s historical past of the furnishings manufacturing returns as further metaphor, presenting us as un-hewn wooden, locked throughout the lathe of time and towards its blade turned, to carve away with every rotation fragments of self en path to new varieties—maybe helpful, maybe stunning, maybe not. and because the layers shaved away fall to floor, they’re swept up at day’s finish and thrown contained in the furnace: to burn and be breathed in as smoke, felt as warmth, and to return at some point as rain from the ambiance wherein they’ve dissipated. what’s left on the lathe is given objective—positioned as slats in chair backs or as desk legs—and from this picture the main target narrows once more: to life with one other—the place, finally, the narrator finds his personal consolation towards the tumult—by way of the furnishings moved and utilized by them from one shared residence to a different, and the particular person with whom he’s shared them.”
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“Environmental Disaster Movie” follows “Act One” — a set of three songs — that launched the LP upon its announcement in Could. On the time, the band additionally detailed a leg of US tour dates in September supporting the LP’s launch, with the jaunt kicking off on launch day (September fifth) in Detroit. Get tickets right here.
Stream the lyric video for “Environmental Disaster Movie” beneath.