Jordan Dreyer isn’t interested in obvious problems. La Dispute ’s ferociously thoughtful frontman might have found the initial spark for the Michigan mainstays’ fifth album in a newspaper story about a fatal accident involving a self-driving car, but confronting humanity’s spiralling over reliance on technology was never going to be enough. Fleshing the concept out into a five-act, 14-track odyssey set in their hometown of Grand Rapids, No One Was Driving The Car is an intriguing snapshot of disquiet, from the intimate to the universal.

‘ I longed for end times coming, ’ Jordan characteristically sing-speaks on devastating opener I Shaved My Head. ‘ I understood what it meant / To need to kill and reset / This stranger standing reflected / With my old image blending / Inside the mi

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