Abrasively clean minimalist punk FFO The Fall, Uranium Club, Lungfish. New album ‘Assumption’ due out 02/27 via Exploding In Sound Records.

Landowner operates with a unique set of parameters: distortion-free guitars, an airtight rhythm section, and vocalist Dan Shaw‘s observations on the systems, mindsets, and dark absurdities that entangle and complicate our lives. The result is a truly one-of-a-kind band that’s undeniably strange and unexpectedly catchy in equal measure. Lead single ‘Rival Males’ was a concise introduction to LP, and now ‘Normal Returns To Normal’ stretches out over six minutes, turning the intensely precise band and vocalist Dan Shaw‘s incisive lyricism into a hypnotically satisfying endurance test. Band’s initial concept was a made-up genre called “weak d-beat”, meant to sound intentionally absurd “as if Antelope were reading the sheet music of Discharge” says Shaw. When the vocalist was joined by his current bandmates (guitarists Elliot Hughes and Jeff Gilmartin, bassist and backup vocalist Josh Owsley, and drummer Josh Daniel) in 2017, they translated these early experiments in restraint and caricatured hardcore as a live band. ‘Assumption’ captures the vibrancy and intensity of those performances.

‘Assumption’ tracklist:
1. Assumption
2. Pray For The Environment
3. Linear Age
4. Rival Males
5. Expensive Rent
6. Enemy Attack
7. Uninhabitable
8. Parapet Wall
9. Unboxing
10. Slippery Abyss
11. Bow To Your Superior
12. Normal Returns To Normal

Upcoming Shows:
02/07 – Amherst, MA @ The Drake w/ Slant of Light & Outro
02/27 – Medford MA @ Deep Cuts w/ Rong, Balaclava, & Dust Witch

photo credit: Nikki Basette