La Dispute: Rocky introduced me to La Dispute a while ago. I downloaded one of their albums and forgot about it. I discovered it on my iPod a week or two ago, and fell in love. Similar to mewithoutYou, this style of music isn't for everyone. It's best described as poetry recited somewhat melodically over music. At times it's angry, and at times the emotion is so raw that I wanted to cry.
With lyrics like "You still cross my mind from time to time/And I mostly smile/Still so set on finding out where we went wrong and why/So I retrace our every step with an unsure pen/trying to figure out what my head thinks/but my head just ain't what it used to be," (Andria), "I think I saw you in my sleep, darling/I think I saw you in my dreams/You were stitching up the seams/Of every broken promise that your body could not keep/I think I saw you in my sleep," (Such Small Hands) and "And I remember when I knew that you'd be leaving/how I barely kept up breathing/and I bet if I had to do it all again, I'd feel the same pain/And I remember panicked circles in the terminal in tears/How I wept to God in fits/I've hated airports ever since,"(Andria, again) La Dispute combines pure lyrical honestly with tight instrumentals, and somehow makes it work.
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