La Dispute
Wildlife

OK. No one has yet written this review. On one hand, not having a review for "Wildlife" should be a crime; on the other hand, properly describing a La Dispute album is a challenge. Don’t complain if I fall short. Let's start by saying that this album cannot fail to impress. Maybe someone might not consider it among their favorites, but they will still be deeply affected by it. Even if they don’t like it, they will be impressed. This is not one of those records to listen to just for the sake of it, to pass some time with pleasant sounds in your ears. No. This is music that fully engages the roots of a human being, music that becomes a part of you. I repeat, not everyone might consider it a great album, but I doubt it.

I say that this is a M A S T E R P I E C E even better than the predecessor dated 2008.

Describing La Dispute is an almost impossible task, categorizing them into a musical genre is very difficult, but not because it's hard to pinpoint their musical influences (experimental Post Hardcore, 90s Emo, Post Rock are just some of the nuances present in their work), but because they are the amplification, the quintessence of such a genre.

The question remains, how to describe them?

Let’s get help from a source: Wikipedia. If we search the word "music," we find a definition that says something like this: "Music is the art and science aimed at creating pleasant sounds meant to express the interiority of the individual and to emotionally involve the listener."

Exactly, it is said that in every type of music there is a particular state of mind, a specific emotion that wants to be transmitted to the listener.

La Dispute are not like that.

Behind any of their songs, there isn’t just an emotion; there is much more. There is an entire life. Of each of the 7 billion human beings on this planet, they manage to express the interiority of anyone. In a sequence of sounds and in their lyrics (among the best ever written, I think), you can find yourself even without wanting to. They get inside you and never leave.

This is "Wildlife." And the words written above are useless.