No One Was Driving the Car

by La Dispute

No One Was Driving the Car cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: September 5, 2025
  • Label: Epitaph, Epitaph Europe
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:04:22
  • Community rating: 4/5 from 28 ratings

Artists on this release: Jordan Dreyer, Adam Vass, Chad Morgan-Sterenberg, Corey Stroffolino, Brad Vander Lugt

Album Notes & Community Reviews

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

Descriptors: conceptual, spoken-word, confessional, stream-of-consciousness, dynamic

Tracklist

  1. I Shaved My Head (03:28)
  2. Man with Hands and Ankles Bound (03:18)
  3. Autofiction Detail (04:53)
  4. Environmental Catastrophe Film (08:41)
  5. Self-Portrait Backwards (02:51)
  6. The Field (03:59)
  7. Sibling Fistfight at Mom's Fiftieth / The Un-sound (04:00)
  8. Landlord Calls the Sheriff In (04:40)
  9. Steve (04:01)
  10. Top-Sellers Banquet (08:18)
  11. Saturation Diver (03:37)
  12. I Dreamt of a Room with All My Friends I Could Not Get In (04:14)
  13. No One Was Driving The Car (03:19)
  14. End Times Sermon (05:03)

Credits

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