In October, Dispatch announced a new multi-part release series, which see the band release collections of songs in phases and will culminate in the release of their eighth studio record in 2021. While Phase 1 arrived along with the announcement, the band has now shared a new single from Phase 2, “As Old As I.”
“Over the last year, bandmates Chadwick Stokes and Brad Corrigan have encountered and had to transcend unprecedented change both as a band and as a society,” read a press release. “They have personally dealt with the death of loved ones, the birth of children and parted ways with their beloved partner and bandmate, Pete Francis. All throughout this time, the world has seen so much change and upheaval, and these new songs were written and recorded as the band’s means to process this change. It’s this spirit of collective awakening and change in all its pain and beauty that defines this new project. These songs speak not only to the band’s personal evolution, but to the human nature itself.”
“Everyone in this country has been facing some kind of turmoil these last four years,” said Stokes (via press release). “As fathers of young kids who worry about what kind of world we’re leaving behind, as people who’ve lost family and friends to suicide and addiction, as bandmates navigating this transition from trio to duo, I think that feeling of everything being in flux was particularly acute for Brad and me. Writing’s always been the way we’ve made sense of the world, though, so that’s what we did.”
“We wanted to walk people through the feelings of sadness and anger and loss we’ve all been experiencing lately and take them to the other side,” added Brad Corrigan. “We wanted to deliver them to a place where they’re wiser and more compassionate, a place where they’re kinder and more unified, a place where they’re ready to truly protect and care for each other.”
To listen to the new single, click here. Listen to Phase 1 here.
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Stephenmalkmus
November 21, 2020 at 8:06 amWoaaaaaahhh. That God character sure is mad, br0. “Take a shower and shine your shoes” for christ’s sake lol…
GOD
November 20, 2020 at 3:31 amAccording to Dispatch: THEY want to make the world “kinder”. SEX must have occurred on a Dispatch tour, once or twice. YOU USED your meager power, to influence young women AND MEN, to have sex with YOU, Dispatch, who otherwise would have NEVER TOUCHED YOU. Many of these millenials will not realize it ’til years l8r, how DISPTACH SEXUALLY ABUSED THEIR FANS, by using their bit o’ fame to get into millenial jockeys. THIS IS NOT KIND AT ALL, Chadwick Stokes. So according to yer very own words: DISPATCH MUST DIE-SBAND NOW. Or OWN IT + pay REPARATIONS to the 2-3 ppl who got boinked on tour over the past 20 years, only to realize in 2020 that fucking old white performers ain’t cool, and therefore should be exploited somehow.
GOD
November 20, 2020 at 3:09 amFUCK YOU, “CHADWICK STOKES”. So sorry that you and you’re bandmate had to face a tough society + DEATH. BUT U STILL GET TO MAKE SHITTY MUSIC + GET TO EAT. FUCK YER WHITE PROBLEMS. Yer job ain’t to change ppl into being KINDER. ANGER IS A HUMAN EMOTION AND IT MUST BE ALLOWED TO EXIST, WITHOUT DARKNESS THERE CANNOT BE LIGHT. What we don’t NEED ARE TWO WHITE CRYBABY TRUST-FUND YUTZES TELLING US TO BE FUCKING KINDER TO EACH OTHER. BEING FORCED INTO BEING NICE IS WHAT GOT US HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE. iF ONE FUCKING PERSON MANNED UP, one fucking less man would be here AND WE’D ALL BE BETTER FOR IT? RIGHT? B/C 1 GUY RULES AMERICA? YER FUCKING FULL OF DEAD DOGSHIT AND I AM CALLING OUT DICK-SPLASH, NOW + 4EVA. U GUYS SUCK DICK AND i’M GAY, AND THAT MAKES ME SICK, HOW BADLY U SUCK ANOTHER MAN’S PECKER, U TWO BIT PECKERWOOD CREEPS. FUCK OFF + DIE + KILL YERSELVES NOW. THAT IS IMHO AND IN AMERICA I GET TO HAVE THAT OPINION. DEAL WITH IT DICKNOSES. Two slices and yer done. GOALS, RIGHT?