La Dispute Band • Page 14

literally every time i see them i'm convinced they're 2 seconds away from breaking up and then they randomly announce a new album, so fingers crossed that really weird feeling continues.

 

yeah i remember thinking after Wildlife that that would be it for them just because of the way Jordan was talking during interviews and such. Then BAM ROTH plus the couple EPs released. So now its just a waiting game hopefully.

Wildlife means so much to me and few songs get me as emotional as Edward Benz or I See Everything. Edward Benz gets me because, while I'm not Schizophrenic I am Bipolar with very severe anxiety (I shake really badly to the point where my Doctor kind of thinks it may be early onset Parkinsons but thats so rare that hes kind of discrediting it due to how my shaking is more tethered to my emotional state and less to a constant shake but im babbling now sorry) as well as having a hard time sleeping due to bouts of BPD mania, so the lines about having trouble holding a job or being independent really cuts deep. Granted I've never stabbed anyone or harmed anyone, but I have been so out of it in a fit of mania that I believed everyone in my life were actors and that I was part of some weird long joke so the line about wires being crossed so badly to the point where you skew reality also cuts super deep. The thematic nature of Wildlife, trauma breeds personal development and emotional catharsis can be gleaned from even the strongest memories, really resonates with me to the point where Wildlife can be kind of hard to listen to. My father passed away from cancer when I was about 3 so while I dont really remember much I do remember hospital visits, my father looking gaunt and pale like a scarecrow, him being stuck in a bed for the rest of his life, its hard for me but I cant imagine how hard it was for my mom to watch the man she had a son with wither away. I See Everything always hits me hard because of that, even if its a completely different set of circumstances.

idk why im sharing all this but heres why i adore Wildlife so much i guess

 

wow.. fucking preach. i wish i could verbalize what wildlife means to me the way you can.

 

broken jar came on today and reminded me how fucking stellar the last minute or so of that song is.

I know I knocked the table over because I watched the jar break
And I’ve been trying to repair it every single stupid day
But won’t the cracks still show no matter how well it’s assembled?
Can I ever just decide to let it die and let you go?
All my motives and every single narrative below reflects
That moment when it broke
And will I never let it go no matter what?

Now I am throwing all the shards away
Discarding every fragment, and fumbling uncertain
Towards a curtain call that no one wants to happen
That no one’s going to clap for at all, but that still has to be

 

jar/poem/letter are some of the more incredible songs they've written imo.

 

I know some people think the lyrics are a bit heavy handed.

I could not disagree more. Love how he writes. Great example above of great poetry.

Need more LD

 

preach

 

put on 13 the other day.

goosebumps for days.

 

ehehhe

 

dude maybe they are still a band

 

Last Lost Continent came on shuffle and when that riff kicks in, at about 8 (?) minutes I think, I still want to start a pit in public.

 

somethings comin. i can feel it.

 

I'm ready.

 

WHO DEM BOYS

 

lets get weird

 

Uh oh. Is it time?

 

I heard about 4/5 months ago that they were doing a 10 year tour for Somewhere At The Bottom with Touche

They did 10 flowers in each row in the tweet (could be absolutely nothing) but if I had to guess, that would be it.

 

It’s also 10 rows.

That would be a sick tour. I’d definitely go if it came to my neck of the woods

 

weird tour idea, hope it’s not

 

the absolute lads

 

I would love that tour but it won't come to the UK so eh.

 

Also that tour makes a lot of sense. It's their most popular album still, and if they want to start a new "era" for the band (check them clearing all the "flower" branded merch for example) it would be a good end to that era.

 

Wouldn’t mind a Somewhere tour, and then a new album. I mean I’m assuming it’s alrewdy written.

Somewhere doesn’t really hold up for me anymore, but live I would like to see some songs they don’t perform.

 

would much prefer new material. on to the future