DESPERATELY IMAGINING SOMEPLACE QUIET

01. Civilization Four 02. Prize Contest Life 03. Cujo Kiddies 04. This Time 05. The Curtain 06. The Hardest Part 07. If Only 08. Charley Chimp 09. Tightrope 10. (With Respect To) Loyal Serfs 11. Meant To Be 11. Hitting a Nail With a BB Gun Though initially formed as an extension of the lifelong friendship between guitarist Isaac DeBroux-Slone and bassist Raina Bock, Disq has evolved into a far more egalitarian organization, as Desperately Imagining Someplace Quiet ¬nds guitarists Logan Severson and Shannon Conor splitting singing and songwriting duties with Debroux-Slone and Bock. Such an approach could have easily fallen into the trap of šsatisfying everyone, pleasing no one,› but happily, the opposite is true. Disq has emerged a stronger band, more daring and more de¬ant, ready to ¬nish the job. Wrangling a melange of styles such as this is no simple task, but Desperately Imagining Someplace Quiet is held together by the powerful yet nimble rhythm section of Bock and drummer Stu Manley, whose muscular and hyperactive playing alternately keeps these adventurous compositions tethered ¬rmly to the Earth and sends them soaring into stratosphere. Producer Matt Schuessler rarely lets a verse or chorus go by without adding some new sonic sparkle, keeping the arrangements an ever-shifting kaleidoscope of textures and moods. If there is a record in 2022 which squeezes more ideas into 41 minutes, then that record could surely only be the unlistenable mess that Desperately Imagining Someplace Quiet avoids becoming so deftly. Pushing play on Desperately Imagining Someplace Quiet, it is easy to imagine that it is the year 1998, and your cool older sister has returned from her freshman year at college only to hand you the sort of mind-altering mixtape out of which lifelong rock fanatics are born. Though, things being how they are in the world today, the idea of ¬nding šsomeplace quiet› feels like an increasingly remote possibility, and the act of imagining such a place does, indeed, feel more and more desperate. With Desperately Imagining Someplace Quiet, Disq take a valiant stand against the temptation of complacency. As for that šsomeplace quiet?› It will have to wait... it's about to get loud in here. PRESS/ONLINE: š...A bedroom shrine to Pavement, Weezer, and Teenage Fanclub› - The Guardian (About Disq™s 2020 album Collector) Rated 4 stars by Q, DIY Magazine, The Guardian and 8/10 from UNCUT for their former album Collector.