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| Sputnikmusic |
 I have a weird relationship with La Dispute's wordy debut album Somewhere At The Bottom Of The River Between Vega And Altair. On the surface, they do everything right. A verbose vocalist who delivers his well-thought out poetry with passion? Check. Interesting music? Check. Good songwriting? Check. However, after the sixth or seventh track, I lose all interest in the album. If you were to look at my Itunes library, you would see that the play-count for each song gets progressively lower as the album goes on. So while La Dispute have all the elements that I love, there is just something missing. And now I'm thinking that maybe - just maybe - that something was heartbreak. Not in the music, no. There's plenty of that there. It was missing in me. Because goddamn, a lot of the lyrics on Somewhere... are just so ridiculous ("She is mine! You stole her - tricked her somehow - but we'll survive!") that you simply can't take them seriously until you get your heart stomped on by a lady. All of a sudden, the cries of "TONIGHT WE ROOIIDEE" become a lot less funny. Still, the album does lose steam after the first half, and I've been forced to the conclusion that La Dispute simply aren't good enough yet for me to pay attention to them for more than a half hour. That's why Here, Hear III, the latest in a series of EPs, hits such a sweet spot. At thirteen minutes, the EP makes La Dispute a lot easier to swallow. Unlike their aggressive full-length album, Here, Hear III is much more subdued, focusing more on Jordan Dreyer's words than the music. Interestingly, when the music serves only to complement his lyrics, the musicians truly shine. On Somewhere... it seemed like Dreyer and the band were constantly battling to gain control of the album, and while the musicians arguably should have won, Dreyer came out on top simply by being more ridiculous. Here, Hear III is a much better representation of what La Dispute are capable of doing, and if their next record mixes the aggression of their first album with this EP's soft-spoken style, La Dispute will be a force to be reckoned with. For now, listen to the church-like keyboard of "nine" as it mixes with the sound of the wind blowing, creating perhaps the best backdrop for a lyricist like Dreyer in a long time. Anyone can clash music and voice like La Dispute did on Somewhere..., but it takes true skill to create a piece of music that unites every single component in perfect harmony....full text |
| Asice |
| I never heard of La Dispute before, but I was told they used to be a pretty mediocre screamo-band in the vein of Hot Cross and MeWithoutYou. They released 2 EP’s in that style, but the Here, hear records are in a different, more experimental style. Unfortunately, I haven’t heard the first Here, hear EP, so I can’t tell you what that sounded like. This is the second experimental record, therefore called Here, hear II. This isn’t a screamo-record; it’s more like a writer reading from his own work on a stage with a band playing in the background. Musically it ranges from the more standard singer-songwriter style, nervous jazz with a tambourine, trumpet and clapping hands and a stripped-down version of screamo in the more tense parts of what the teller tells you. The “lyrics” are parts of poems and novels by Bukowski, Camus, Grahame and Straczynski read with a small touch of drama and in some parts the reading evolves into singing for one or two phrases....full text |
| Underthegunreview |
| If you haven’t noticed already, our side bar player has been updated with four literally BRAND NEW [just released at 8pm on Christmas Eve] tracks from La Dispute! These tracks make up the entirety of their new EP, Here, Hear 3 and can be yours for a price you name via the band’s BAND CAMP account. All proceeds will be going to a charitable cause. Read more and click the links below: [SOURCE] Well, it was sleepless, mostly. And frantic, as always. And not without difficulty (spotty internet connection, late equipment arrivals, Brad wrestling with recording business, Chad wrestling with computer business, me falling asleep at 6:30 last night and not waking up till 6:30 this morning, etc. etc. and so on and so forth), but it comes with the sublime mixture of that sort of weary but triumphant satisfaction I can only imagine comes from getting something done by the skin of one’s teeth, and the feeling that you’re doing it for something worthwhile (your potential enjoyment, our creative purge, and, of course Well House). Prior to posting the link, I want to again stress that if you don’t feel compelled to donate, or if you don’t have the means to donate, you can still download the songs–We want you to have them. The option to donate is only an option, albeit one I hope people choose, but we know how tight money is these days....full text |
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