#Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair (2008)

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"So tell me, what is there to fear? You think some seraph up above Is trying to rob us of our love Because the sky's not clear? My dear, you know there's not Now listen to the rain upon the rooftop."

Fall Down, Never Get Back Up Again - La Dispute

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Tracklist:

Such Small Hands • Said the King to the River • New Storms for Older Lovers • Damaged Goods • Fall Down, Never Get Back Up Again • Bury Your Flame • Last Blues for Bloody Knuckles • The Castle Builders • Andria • Then Again, Maybe You Were Right • Sad Prayers for Guilty Bodies • The Last Lost Continent • Nobody, Not Even the Rain

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365 Albums in 365 Days: 217/365

Date: Monday August 5th Album: Somewhere at The Bottom of The River Between Vega and Altair Artist: LA Dispute Released: 2008 Genre: Emo Review: Have you ever wondered what slam poetry would sound like if you gave it a backing track? Look no further. Visceral, emotional, and raw, this album puts some classy guitar lines and percussion behind spoken word to create the world’s sickest slam poetry session. I think that albums that go for the raw, unpolished vibe can often end up sounding cheesy or artificial, but this one really hits on something. There’s a persistent ache throughout the entire runtime, and the music always feels like it’s on the edge of a sob. It’s a haunting set of tracks, and manages to pull off a specific kind of angst I don’t usually see done well. It might not be fun walking material, but it’s a great album to save for a rainy day. I do wanna get my man some green tea though, I think he has a sore throat. Favorite Track: Nobody, Not Even The Rain

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EP Review - Here, Hear. IV – La Dispute (2024)

This EP was the best gift that 2024 could give me, and we're still only in March. A game between the traumas in the stories recounted in La Dispute's first "great" albums - Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair (2008) and Wildlife (2011) - revolutionary for the experimental world of midwest emo, post-hardcore and the underground community in general, and the latest works of art that are most listened to and reflected on, which tell us through the details of everyday life, feelings, landscapes and images open to the listener's imagination - Rooms of the House (2014) and Panorama (2019) - when recitation becomes part of the post-hardcore trends.

Despite the pained voice and the contrasts that create the perfect synthesis of the guitars and bass, the rhythmic coherence of the drums and the literary personality of the band that has always been faithful to us from the beginning until today, elements that have created the "brand image", I notice that these geniuses of emo music don't mind experimenting with new electronics, the absence of screams and distortions, love, new ways of saying things. The fact that we can't catalog and put aesthetic labels on certain artists, because they are constantly metamorphosing and contradicting themselves with the genres given by fans and record companies, certain types of festivals and events, algorithms of streaming platforms, etc., is a proof that the post-hardcore of these bands that continue to record over the years is maturing as a movement. And this EP has made me reflect on my generation, which adapts to trends by not adapting to it at all. Perhaps silences and improbable harmonic resolutions are the oxygen pump for artists and listeners of music created in a studio as if it’s a laboratory.

Here, Hear. is a collection of four volumes, the first of which was released in 2008, the band's big bang year. In the four volumes, we can see that La Dispute exploded at the beginning and took their own advantage of the sounds in a very genuine, pure and direct way, unashamed to use unconventional instruments such as pianos, maracas and “folklorized” melodies - always recognizable on a timbral level, anyway - but it was in this last one, sixteen years later, that we see the band flourish, not in an explosive way as before, but always pure and honest. They reinforce simplicity and the timeless stories. Sixteen, the fourth song on the EP, and one that had been released before on Spotify, marks a new life of La Dispute: it reminds me of the walks I had to school when I was fourteen and of my first crush had dedicated the song Such Small Hands (2008) to me in anonymity; of the song Woman (In the Mirror) (2014) when I was always at home trying to discover my own way of (always hidden) teenage happiness. Today I've discovered how happy I can be and that the nostalgia for the sadness, heartbreak and melancholy that went on in the corners of my neighborhood while I listened to La Dispute's entire discography for most of the years I lived there is part of it. We were sad listening to sad music, and happiness, today, is based on that. This single, according to my empirical experience and to the community of fans writing online as well, reminds us of those nostalgic times.

And the group's aesthetic minimalism continues. Not just in the music, but in the band's overall image. And I'm enjoying watching it. The lyrics and stories increasingly make sense, since the instrumental part of the EP makes them prevail. In the song Reformation, which concludes the EP in a mode of ecstatic tranquillity, we have a beautiful guitar that harps along with Jordan Dreyer's unsung and unshouted voice. Just like that. Everything that the music of sensitive people needed to offer about the art of growing up and noticing life's little symbols, even when you drink your coffee in the morning before facing the life of an adult who is emotionally trapped by the years that have passed.

«You awake at 3AM to the soft voice of her dream, saying

"These are the people who said that you like him would never die

Until you do and you will and I will too

Just like this, baby, but longer, forever

And there's nothing past that door, I know it"

Before she drifts back to sleep where you can't now and it's okay

Peace be with you»

Reformation, La Dispute (2024)

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ALBUM REVIEW- LA DISPUTE - “SOMEWHERE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE RIVER BETWEEN VEGA AND ALTAIR” (2008)

5/5

TRACKLIST:

1. Such Small Hands

2. Said the King to the River

3. New Storms for Older Lovers

4. Damaged Goods

5. Fall Down, Never Get Back Up Again

6. Bury Your Flame

7. Last Blues for Bloody Knuckles

8. The Castle Builders

9. Andria

10. Then Again, Maybe You Were Right

11. Sad Prayers for Guilty Bodies

12. The Last Lost Continent

13. Nobody, Not Even the Rain

STAND OUT TRACKS: Such Small Hands, Said the King to the River, New Storms for Older Lovers, Damaged Goods, Bury Your Flame

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tagged by @oliviasjaw to post 25 songs from spotify shuffle (the first 25? idk but that’s what i’m doing)

gaslight - emilie autumn (fight like a girl, 2012)

i dreamed a dream (les miserables original broadway cast recording, 1987)

liberian girl - michael jackson (bad, 1987)

video girl - fka twigs (lp1, 2014)

the ghost of you - my chemical romance (three cheers for sweet revenge, 2004)

women in hordes / still can’t kill us - the hirs collective (friends. lovers. favorites, 2018)

boot - tamar-kali (geechee goddess hardcore warrior soul ep, 2003)

mrs jones - hole (pretty on the inside, 1991)

second hand faith - emilie autumn (enchant, 2001)

thirsty and miserable - black flag (damaged, 1981)

if you tolerate this your children will be next - manic street preachers (this is my truth tell me yours, 1998)

you know what they do to guys like us in prison - my chemical romance (three cheers for sweet revenge, 2004)

fall down, never get back up again - la dispute (somewhere at the bottom of the river between vega and altair, 2008)

destruction makes the world burn brighter - chelsea wolfe (pain is beauty, 2013)

1996 - brand new (3 demos, reworked, 2016)

repeater - fugazi (repeater, 1990)

calling all cars - senses fail (still searching, 2006)

refuse - wormrot (abuse, 2010)

front toward enemy - incendiary (thousand mile stare, 2017)

i was a teenage anarchist - against me! (white crosses, 2011)

lone - chelsea wolfe (pain is beauty, 2013)

so happy i could die - lady gaga (the fame monster, 2009)

disintegration - the cure (disintegration, 1989)

mechanical flattery - lydia lunch (queen of siam, 1980)

beautiful, dirty, rich - lady gaga (the fame monster, 2009)

i dont feel like tagging any1 but u can do it if u want and say i tagged u

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Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair, 2008 (No Sleep)

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If I can’t love you as a lover, I will love you as a friend.

La Dispute, “Andria” Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair (2008)

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Live Picks: 4/23

La Dispute

BY JORDAN MAINZER

Post-hardcore. Post-middle age.

La Dispute, Thalia Hall

The loud-quiet-loud dynamic is best complemented by words spoken or screamed, and no post-hardcore or emo-adjacent band likewise wavers more effectively between calm and anxiety than Grand Rapids’ La Dispute. On their new album Panorama, a title that references the all-encompassing nature of worry and death, lead singer Jordan Dreyer generates inspiration from many tragedies that took place on a route from the GR neighborhood of East Hills to Lowell, MI where his partner grew up. Some of the deaths made the news; they all left an impression on Dreyer. “Will I ever put flowers by the street?!?” he wails, agitated, on “FULTON STREET I”, pushed over the brink by the band’s scraping guitars slowly increasing in volume.

All this time, Dreyer is thinking about immortality while his relationship falls apart. “Too much of you at once is just enough at all times,” he reassures himself more than his partner on the slow-burning “IN NORTHERN MICHIGAN”. The bond between the two is tested on “VIEW FROM OUR BEDROOM WINDOW”, a portrait of two people trying but failing to make it work. “We cup our hands in the storm / And watch our houses burning / We catch the rain to fight it,” Dreyer admits in desperation.

But where do those two collide? In existential angst, of course. Panorama is incredibly cohesive within La Dispute’s discography, and not just because many of the songs reference 2014′s excellent Rooms of the House or 2008′s Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair. It’s post-hardcore that’s itchy and slinky, in line with Slint and Big Ups, and where many bands would strengthen Dreyer’s hoarseness with gang vocals, La Dispute and longtime producer Will Yip leaves them alone. Indeed, on closer “YOU ASCENDANT”, when he sings that he’s “alone there like all of us,” he finds solidarity in the shared emptiness.

8.2/10

Florida punk band Gouge Away and local rockers Slow Mass open.

Todd Rundgren, Athenaeum Theatre

Beloved multi-instrumentalist/singer-songwriter/producer Todd Rundgren is currently on The Individualist tour, which focuses almost exclusively on his older material and promotes his new memoir The Individualist. Expect him to introduce each song, perform it in sync with a video, and even do an audience Q&A session.

Van Morrison & The James Hunter Six, Chicago Theatre

He’s put out six albums this decade, but you don’t go to hear either of the two (!) new releases from last year, including his 40th. Van Morrison traditionally does not like performing live. Why not see him when you have the chance?

We previewed The James Hunter Six’s set last year at SPACE:

“Every few years, English band The James Hunter Six releases yet another solid record of soul revivalism. In 2013, it was Minute By Minute. In 2016, it was Hold On! Their latest is the recorded-live-to-tape Whatever It Takes, released earlier this year to equal acclaim. Though Hunter had a solo career and was part of other bands before The James Hunter Six, live, the band tends to pull from their increasingly great discography as a sextet.”

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La Dispute Sign With Epitaph Records

La Dispute has signed with Epitaph Records. The full press release can be found below. Today, Epitaph Records announce that La Dispute has joined the label roster. The band is currently working on new music for a yet to be announced album. Formed over a decade ago in Grand Rapids, Michigan, La Dispute has a firm passion for the concept of music and art as a medium for making new friends. As a result, La Dispute makes (or strives to make) music that is both artistically, technically, and emotionally engaging in hopes of establishing legitimate connections with any and all interested people, while encouraging dialogue between those people and themselves about things in life that truly matter and that truly last. La Dispute also carries a firm passion for the relevance of a live show, both for the bands involved and for the people in attendance, and will go to the grave believing that the environment created when strangers come together despite their differences to celebrate one important thing is invaluable and should not under any circumstances be taken for granted. As previously announced, La Dispute will release a revamped 10-year anniversary edition of their breakthrough debut full-length Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair. Out November 9, 2018 via No Sleep Records, the release boasts re-amped guitars from the original recording files by Grammy-nominated recording vet Will Yip (Code Orange, Circa Survive, The Menzingers), a new mix by Dave Schiffman (Charlie XCX, Trash Talk, Thrice), and was re-mastered by Emily Lazar (Morrissey, Beck, Coldplay). The new version also comes with re-imagined artwork by Corey Purvis. La Dispute is Jordan Dryer (vocals), Chad Sterenberg (guitar), Adam Vass (bass), Corey Stroffolino (guitar), and Brad Vander Lugt (drums). In their 14 years as a band, La Dispute has released three studio albums Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair (2008), Wildlife (2011), Rooms of the House (2014), and 11 EPs. Additionally, La Dispute released their documentary Tiny Dots including an accompanying sound track. --- Please consider supporting us so we can keep bringing you stories like this one. ◎ https://chorus.fm/news/la-dispute-sign-with-epitaph-records/