La Dispute's 'No One Was Driving The Car': Interview

Jordan Dreyer had the concept for No One Was Driving the Car figured out pretty early: a winding, intricate network of characters trying not to buckle under the strain of environmental disaster , religious dogma, generational trauma and multi-level marketing schemes. From that point forward, he tried to consume art that matched the mood he imagined for La Dispute’s fifth album, and so breaks in recording were filled with the films of Lars Von Trier, David Cronenberg, and Ari Aster, and most importantly, Paul Schrader’s First Reformed . The final product spanned five acts and 65 minutes, with the longest lyrics sheet I’ve ever received in an album promo — a 47-page Google doc, bursting at the margins. A work of such magnitude was bound to leave Dreyer wishing he could change a word