La Dispute have developed a reputation for making some of the most cerebral, poetic post-hardcore of the modern era. Forming as a high school band in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 2004, they made their full-length debut with Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair four years later. Whilst the band would subsequently move on to greater things, the album had a fairly unreconstructed ’00s emo sound, and it remains a relative weak spot in their discography. Second album Wildlife (2011) made greater use of jagged guitar lines that sounded reminiscent of ’90s post-hardcore greats like Fugazi and Unwound, and lead vocalist Jordan Dreyer’s lyrics had a far more mature approach to storytelling than that he deployed on Somewhere’s lyrics.

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