No One Was Driving the Car

by La Dispute

No One Was Driving the Car cover art

La Dispute's fifth studio album, 'No One Was Driving The Car', is a self-produced conceptual work exploring themes of existential dread, technological anxiety, and the loss of personal control in the modern world. [11, 12] Inspired by a real-life automated vehicle crash, the album's cinematic post-hardcore sound balances explosive, screamo-tinged passages and quieter acoustic moments, with frontman Jordan Dreyer's poetic, spoken-word delivery arranged into a distinct narrative structure of five acts. [11, 4, 12, 13]

Genres

  • Post-Hardcore
  • Emo

Tracklist

  1. I Shaved My Head
  2. Man with Hands and Ankles Bound
  3. Autofiction Detail
  4. Environmental Catastrophe Film
  5. Self-Portrait Backwards
  6. The Field
  7. Sibling Fistfight at Mom's Fiftieth / The Un-sound
  8. Landlord Calls the Sheriff In
  9. Steve
  10. Top-Sellers Banquet
  11. Saturation Diver
  12. I Dreamt of a Room with All My Friends I Could Not Get In
  13. No One Was Driving The Car
  14. End Times Sermon