Gottlieb have announced their long-awaited debut album, The Far Fallen Fruit, will be released on the 1st May via Quiet Panic Records, the record marks a defining statement from the Los Angeles based anarcho-punk band: furious, self-interrogating, and unflinchingly political. The album’s first single, Pipe Bomb, is now available and will be followed by a hometown single release show on February 22nd at LA’s The Echo. Opening with the line “Nothing more dangerous than a failed artist,” the track serves as both the thesis statement for the album and a blunt reflection of the moment it was written.
“This was written at a time when I was experiencing the contraction of the TV industry. I was alongside my peers on strike, watching our dreams die in a business suffocated by billion-dollar deals. It’s a commentary on the commodification of workers across industries, where our lifelong wellbeing amounts to an accounting error. That kind of disenfranchisement is treated as normal, like white supremacy or a homemade bomb. It’s a cheap investment made from standard household ingredients. Our generation is in an antagonistic, mutually destructive relationship with the United States of America. The American Ideal has crumbled, and the American Dream is something we’ve been forced to reject, even while hoping it could still be recovered. This album is dedicated to those who are planting better trees, whose shade they’ll never rest beneath“ (vocalist Andrew Pescara)
The Far Fallen Fruit is entirely self-produced by the band, from artwork to recording and mixing. Drawing influence from the punk side of hardcore, including the confrontational urgency of Ceremony, Crass, and Refused, Gottlieb channel a sound that is volatile, direct, and uncomfortably honest. While hardcore has grown more visible and fashionable, the band uses that platform to reflect the isolating, unstable, and violent realities of the present. At its core The Far Fallen Fruit confronts a generational reckoning, with a backdrop of economic precarity, political radicalization, and systemic collapse, the album reads as both eulogy and warning. Rather than nostalgia or reformism, The Far Fallen Fruit argues for rupture, the record documents the realization that the blueprint handed down is obsolete, and that future generations will judge what comes next by what is done now.
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