* PREORDER * LANDOWNER - Assumption LP (colour vinyl)

* PREORDER * expected to arrive late Feb / early March

Limited edition "Electric Smoke" colour vinyl. Black wax also available.

Highly recommended (the first two singles are killer!)

The band we've been telling folk about since 2018 return! We have introduced literally hundreds of Strangeworlders to the Western Massachusetts band. A smart punk rock promoter could do worse than bring these talented individuals here.

Landowner play abrasively-clean minimalist punk that appeals to fans of everything from Shellac to Slint, Black Flag or the Circle Jers to the Minutemen or Spray Paint to My Disco.

The lyrics are always an exceptionally clever take on social commentary too.

When Dan Shaw joined with his current bandmates in 2017, they translated these early experiments in restraint, minimalism, and caricatured hardcore as a live band. This provided Landowner with its own unique set of blueprints: the guitars “slap hard” without using any distortion or effects, the rhythm section is tight, fast, and repetitious, and the song structures make space for lyrics that reflect on the global systems and dark absurdities our lives are tangled in. Comparisons could be made to The Fall, Lungfish, or Uranium Club, but across their five albums, they make it clear: Landowner just sound like Landowner. Assumption is the band's fifth album.

Sonically, it captures the vibrancy and intensity of their live performances. The album title “Assumption” encapsulates the album's multi-layered themes. We make assumptions, taking in information online through an overload of decontextualized snippets and headlines, and then quickly form conclusions, or we allow artificial intelligence to do the thinking for us. Assumption is the sound of a band that established its own musical identity and has reached a place of tightness with an ease gained from years of playing together, sounding mechanically precise and at the same time fully human.