Following up on my previous post on La Dispute, heres a little blurb I wrote on their latest release “Somewhere at the Bottom of the River…” This could very well be the best thing to come out this year, and that’s definitely saying something:

5/5

“Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair” isn’t really an album as much as it is an experience. From beginning to finish, this album will make you want to scream, cry, laugh and love.

The music itself can be described as a progressive post-hardcore melding pot of bands such as At The Drive In, Glassjaw, mewithoutYou, and Circle Takes The Square. Dual guitars intertwine to create the jagged musical base for frontman Jordan Dryer’s vocals. At first listen, the comparisons between Dreyer and mewithoutYou vocalist Aaron Weiss or inescapable. Like Weiss, Dreyer is able to wield his words together in a way many wish they were capable of, creating an intensity that is nearly tangible such as on the track “new storms for older lovers” when the chaos receeds for a few short seconds as Dreyer bellows:
“always is valueless, i wish i’d never heard her speak a word!”

and as the onslaught continues one thing is for sure. La Dispute has created something that is truly lacking these days. An album that stands proud and geniune in its crowded genre with it’s fists to the sky.

La Dispute @ Myspace

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