Wildlife

by La Dispute

Wildlife cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 4 October 2011
  • Label: No Sleep
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 57:41
  • Community rating: 4.26/5 from 23 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

This concept album features a series of short stories narrated by Jordan Dreyer's frantic, spoken-word vocals. 'Wildlife' explores themes of tragedy, loss, and urban decay with novelistic detail and explosive post-hardcore instrumentation. It is an emotionally exhausting but deeply rewarding work of narrative punk.

Genres

Descriptors: conceptual, death, spoken-word, narrative, confessional, dynamic, emotive, long-form

Tracklist

  1. a Departure (03:32)
  2. Harder Harmonies (03:35)
  3. St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church Blues (03:46)
  4. Edit Your Hometown (02:55)
  5. a Letter (03:49)
  6. Safer in the Forest/Love Song for Poor Michigan (04:36)
  7. The Most Beautiful Bitter Fruit (03:55)
  8. a Poem (02:59)
  9. King Park (06:54)
  10. Edward Benz, 27 Times (05:44)
  11. I See Everything (03:37)
  12. a Broken Jar (02:19)
  13. all our bruised bodies and the whole heart shrinks (05:04)
  14. You and I in Unison (04:56)

Credits

  • Jordan Dreyer - lyrics by, vocals
  • Brad Vander Lugt - drums, handclaps, bells, tambourine, shaker, triangle, chimes, guiro, percussion [box stomps, foot stomps, metal grate, chains], piano, electric piano [rhodes], keyboards, sounds [field recordings]
  • Chad Morgan-Sterenberg - Member
  • Corey Stroffolino - Member
  • Adam Vass - artwork, layout
  • Keith Parry - engineer [assistant]
  • Kevin Whittemore - guitar
  • Chad Sterenberg - guitar, sounds [micro cassette recordings], bells [conduit], synthesizer [modular], trumpet, percussion [foot stomps], glockenspiel, vocals
  • Ricardo Gutierrez - mastered by [mastering engineer]
  • David Summers - photography by
  • La Dispute - producer
  • Andrew Everding - producer, engineer
  • Joe Pedulla - producer, engineer, engineer [mix engineer]

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