In January we shared Disq's Daily Routine Official Video from their much anticipated debut album "Collector" (due to drop March 6th via Saddle Creek), and today we share the flip side called Loneliness. It seems that the Disq "modus operandi" is going to be creating cool songs with waaay cool videos to support them and Loneliness was also (like DR) directed by coool, aka John TerEick and Jake Nokovic. The pair once again entice with soft focus cinematography and a sweet, albeit goofy aesthetic although not feeling a Wes Anderson meets David Robert Michell vibe on this one (like before). The song itself is great though, self effacing pop like Weezer married to Chelsea Light Moving (Thurston Moore) married to The Beatles. I particularly was surprised by the opening acoustic strummed mellowness as Isaac deBroux-Slone sings, "green things all around in here, fan blows ringing in my ear" and as you see him bouncing up and down on a green screened snow mobile, probably swallowing fake plastic snow making me wonder if the creation of the video relates to those opening lines (?), well maybe.
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
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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.
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