Where the past two albums had vocalist, Jordan Dreyer delving further into fictional subject matter, it’s with "Panorama" that the band has created the most personal project since their breakthrough "Somewhere At The Bottom Of The River Between Vega And Altair", an album whose influence has been palpable within the genre over the course of the past decade. Most of what happens on "Panorama" takes place on the route Jordan and his partner would drive from their home in the East Hills neighborhood of Grand Rapids to the city of Lowell, where she grew up. Everywhere along the drive are places where, in varying degrees of recency, people have died: a pond where a man drowned walking home in the winter, multiple places where people crashed driving drunk or were killed in car accidents, and one place where years prior a city worker found a Jane Doe decomposed. "Panorama" is intended to be a wide angled shot of that drive, with the stories of those tragedies becoming focal points but filtered through the sieve of the couple's life together.
For the first 2 singles off the album, illustrator Sarah Schmidt beautifully animates “ROSE QUARTZ / FULTON STREET 1,” bringing to life the drive from East Hills to Lowell, MI, with muted colors and a unique anime-esque style.
La Dispute has maintained the same attitude they started with since the formed in 2004. They are a band figuring out how to live meaningfully while also trying to make meaningful art without compromise. "Panorama", then, is another chapter in a discography that tells everyday stories in a remarkable way. It takes you deep within the heart of the world we live in, which may not always be a comfortable or comforting place to be, but at the very least it’s a reminder that we’re not there alone.
"PANORAMA" TRACKLISTING:
2. FULTON STREET I
3. FULTON STREET II
4. RHODONITE AND GRIEF
5. ANXIETY PANORAMA
6. IN NORTHER MICHIGAN
7. VIEW FROM OUR BEDROOM WINDOW
8. FOOTSTEPS AT THE POND
9. THERE YOU ARE (HIDING PLACE)
10. YOU ASCENDANT
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