La Dispute

La Dispute have taken many sharp turns over an artistic evolution spanning many years. The five-piece post-hardcore group moved from dissonant blasts with poetic lyrics during their earliest days into material that has incorporated a deeper breadth of musical influences. Interested from the beginning in a lyrical delivery style that sometimes veered into spoken word, the group experimented with jazz, prog, and dynamic shifts as they went on. This growth could be seen strikingly in the narrative storytelling and musical shifting of the band's meticulously constructed third LP, 2014's Rooms of the House, and the study of memory and personal nostalgia that was 2019's Epitaph-released album Panorama. La Dispute's fifth full-length, 2025's No One Was Driving the Car, was the first to be produced entirely by the band from writing and recording sessions that took place in Michigan, the United Kingdom, Australia, and the Philippines.