AP Track Review
Mined from their much anticipated debut album "Collector" (due to drop March 6th via Saddle Creek), the Official Video for Madison, Wisconsin’s Disq's track Daily Routine is a charming, funny sort of T.V Series styled video in the sort of manic / comedic vein of a Beastie Boys video as directed by both Wes Anderson and David Robert Michell (It Follows) with 70's style soft lens, a rich but subdued color palette and a sense of nostalgia as actually directed by John TerEick and Jake Nokovic (Production Company: Method and Madness). The song itself has a pure pop punk vibe with inspired sounds that made me think of Weezer married to Chelsea Light Moving (Thurston Moore) married to The Beatles. Yes, the Beatles. There is a cleanly wrought Brit Pop psychedelic psychology throughout in the guitars interplay. Isaac deBroux-Slone holds sway over the vox on this one with the right amount of contempt and dispassionate smirk. His inward angst is the thing of youth especially with the world as it is now and, maybe forever, right? While this record is exquisitely produced (maybe too much so), Disq has a great live sound and will blow up even bigger in the near future. Stay true boys and girls.
Disq are Raina Bock (bass / vocals), Isaac deBroux-Slone (guitar / vocals), Logan Severson (guitar / vocals), Brendan Manley (drums) and Shannon Connor (guitar /keys /vocals) and are on tour (check out dates way down below).
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Robb Donker
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
Madison, Wisconsin’s Disq released two songs in 2019 for Saddle Creek’s Document Series, earning early praise from the likes of NPR Music, The FADER, Stereogum, and more. Now the band have officially signed to Saddle Creek, and announce their remarkable debut album Collector. Collector, like the band itself, is defined and tightly-contoured by the ties between its members. Raina Bock (bass/vocals) and Isaac deBroux-Slone (guitar/vocals) have known each other from infancy, growing up and into music together. Now in their early 20s and a five-piece, rounded out by (guitar/keys/vocals), Logan Severson (guitar/vocals), and Brendan Manley (drums), Disq have assembled a razor-sharp, teetering-on-the-edge-of-chaos melange of sounds, experiences, memories, and influences on their debut LP. Produced by Rob Schnapf (Beck, Elliot Smith, Kurt Vile), Collector is a set of songs largely pulled from each of the five members’ demo piles over the years. They’re organic representations of each moment in time, gathered together to tell a mixtape-story of growing up in 21st century America with your best friends. Pre-order Collector, out March 6th, HERE. There are 200 Coke Bottle Clear LP’s available exclusively from the Saddle Creek online store.
Collector ought to be taken literally—it is a place to explore and catalogue the Madison, Wisconsin band’s relationships to themselves, their pasts, and the world beyond the American Midwest as they careen from their teens into their 20s. This turbulence is backdropped by gnarled power pop, anxious post-punk, warm psych-folk, and hectic, formless, tongue-in-cheek indie rock. Having literally known eachother since almost the day they were born, Bock and deBroux-Slone started jamming in middle school (Bock vividly recalls being floored by deBroux-Slone covering “Jesus of Suburbia” on the drums), and by high school they were playing in bands together. Through gigging around Madison, they met and befriended Connor, Severson and Manley—three equally dedicated and adventurous musicians committed to coaxing genre boundaries.
Additionally, Disq announce a North American tour in April following SXSW, and will make their way to London next week to debut new material at Five Day Forecast. Having already opened for the likes of Shame, Girlpool, Jay Som and more, Disq’s live show is not to be missed. Tickets go on-sale Friday, January 10th, at 10 AM locally. See below to find a show near you, and get your tickets HERE.
Tour Dates:
1/14 - London, UK @ The Lexington (Five Day Forecast)
1/15 - London, UK @ The Old Blue Last *
3/16-22 - Austin, TX @ SXSW
4/3 - Iowa City, IA @ Mission Creek Festival
4/4 - Chicago, IL @ Schubas ^
4/6 - Detroit, MI @ PJ's Lager House ^
4/7 - Toronto, ON @ The Drake ^
4/9 - Boston, MA @ Great Scott ^
4/10 - New York, NY @ Rough Trade ^
4/11 - Philadelphia, PA @ Boot & Saddle ^
4/12 - Washington, DC @ Songbyrd ^
4/14 - Nashville, TN @ High Watt
4/15 - Kansas City, MO @ Uptown Theater
4/17 - Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge
4/18 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court
4/20 - San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar ~
4/21 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo ~
4/22 - San Francisco, CA @ Cafe du Nord ~
4/24 - Seattle, WA @ Barboza ~
4/25 - Portland, OR @ Doug Fir ~
4/28 - Minneapolis, MN @ 7th St Entry
5/1 - Madison, WI @ High Noon Saloon
* w/ The Districts
^ w/ Pom Pom Squad
~ w/ Girl Friday
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