La Dispute - Vancouver - Cloudy Blue - VINYL LP

Sky Blue and Mint Green. Here, Hear is an ongoing creative series born in 2007 as a way to deepen understanding of themes and ideas present in proper album releases through added musical and lyrical context for listeners interested in small peeks behind the songwriting curtain. Changing forms, approaches, and mediums periodically throughout it's history, the current iteration of the project exists as creative writing prompts introduced and followed by one individual member before being passed along to the others one by one for contribution in a sort of musical game of telephone. The end results are songs written and recorded layer by layer, member by member, all around a central suggestion or restriction, discussed at length on Patreon and via recorded podcast conversations dissecting the experience. The most recent entry, titled Inch16,Inch began with a prompt from bass player Adam Vass called InchThis Song Will Self-DestructInch where contributing members were challenged to InchbreakInch something periodically as the composition progressed. The final product is what you hear five musicians who took five different approaches to self-destruction, for a host of different reasons, and a song that slowly degrades as it heads toward it's end, though it remains fully listenable despite the nature of the prompt.In partnership with Here, Hear, the last few years have seen the introduction of a new writing exercise called MEANTIME, which flip La Dispute's standard music-first approach to songcraft in favor of entries constructed by individual instrumentalists around spoken vocal recordings. Born from a desire to remain creatively engaged while apart during COVID shutdown, MEANTIME songs are poems before songs, words written and recorded that come to life sonically only when passed from vocalist Jordan Dreyer to one of the band's musicians for structure, texture, and mood.

Vinyl LP pressing. La Dispute is five close friends from the Upper Midwest with 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.

Ashley McBryde - Wild [COMPACT DISCS] Jewel Case Packaging date 05/08/2026