{"product_id":"landowner-assumption","title":"Assumption","description":"\u003cp\u003eWestern Massachusetts band Landowner play abrasively-clean minimalist punk. Singer Dan Shaw started Landowner in 2016, writing and recording the project's debut \u003cem\u003eImpressive Almanac\u003c\/em\u003e with a practice amp and a laptop drum machine. Shaw'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”.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAssumption \u003c\/em\u003eis 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. \u003cem\u003eAssumption \u003c\/em\u003eis 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. It may be the band's most cohesive and fully realised work to date.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReleased: March 2026\u003cbr\u003eCat: LPEIS148\u003cbr\u003eLabel: 843563197646\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eListen\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WgmBkgqJwUU?si=grc9WkTVgZlAkZb2\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eTracklist\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e1. Assumption\u003cbr\u003e2. Pray for the Environment\u003cbr\u003e3. Linear Age\u003cbr\u003e4. Rival Males\u003cbr\u003e5. Expensive Rent\u003cbr\u003e6. Enemy Attack\u003cbr\u003e7. Uninhabitable\u003cbr\u003e8. Parapet Wall\u003cbr\u003e9. Unboxing\u003cbr\u003e10. Slippery Abyss\u003cbr\u003e11. Bow to your Superior\u003cbr\u003e12. Normal Returns to Normal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Landowner","offers":[{"title":"LP-Black","offer_id":56434787254658,"sku":"06\/03\/26-DISLAS","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1795\/4365\/files\/53a39e79-95a0-4d38-b2ea-be724a2bd5a3.jpg?v=1774371622","url":"https:\/\/recordculture.com\/products\/landowner-assumption","provider":"Record Culture","version":"1.0","type":"link"}