La Dispute announces first new album in 6 years and drops first 3 songs to make the news better

For the first time in 6 years La Dispute will be releasing a new album. The post hardcore favorites announced ‘NO ONE WAS DRIVING THE CAR‘ will drop Sept. 5th off Epitaph Records. In rare news with it the band has also released the first act of the record with one of the songs having a music video to back it as well.

he 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 neighbour’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.