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.

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