Conceptual band La Dispute returned last month to announce No One Was Driving the Car, their first new album in six years. Today, they’ve unveiled its second act: Environmental Catastrophe Film, an eight-minute composition that’s meticulous in detail and devastating in its climax. It’s a meditative slow-burn, building with quiet restraint before erupting into the kind of emotional wreckage only La Dispute can conjure. Jordan Dreyer talks about the album’s second act:
“The second act—more or less the thematic centre of the record—is a single song split into three parts. It begins with a boy beside a creek-bed in a wooded area near home, holding a snapping turtle above the flowing water, before tracing its winding path to the river around which the city was first built, and through a brief history of the city itself—its settlement, the creation of the Christian reformed church, and the furniture industry that dominated its early economic growth.
