This title is a pre-order and scheduled to be released June 6, 2025

Ripped and Torn

Name: Ripped and Torn
Brand: Matador Records
SKU: OLE2145LP
Price: 56.0 NZD
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Release Date: June 6, 2025

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Chicago's hawt young trio Lifeguard have just unveiled plans for their debut album Ripped and Torn, recorded with No Age's Randy Randall. Set to make good on the hype generated by their previously released EPs and singles on Matador, the trio of Asher Case, Isaac Lowenstein, and Kai Slater are looking unstoppable. - Flying Out

The youthful trio of Asher Case, Isaac Lowenstein, and Kai Slater have been making music together since they were in high school, nearly a quarter of their lives. Noisy and immediate, cryptic but heartfelt, they draw inspiration from punk, dub, power-pop and experimental sounds, and bring them all together in explosive inspiration.

Over their two prior summers on Matador, Lifeguard’s EPs carefully documented the band’s early, earnest, studio explorations. But their tremendous live shows, anchored by Lowenstein’s rock-steady backbeat, hinted that something greater was waiting in the wings. On Ripped and Torn, the barbed-wire sound frames Slater and Case’s newly rich two-part harmonies and collagiste lyrics. Producer Randy Randall (No Age) captures a claustrophobic scrappiness that conjures the feeling and energy of the house parties and live shows, where ears are easily overwhelmed, and ragged improvisations connect with the same force as melodic hooks.

The band remains a singular and intimate space where freedom, noise, and melody find visceral form. “The physical element is something we’re all very together on,” explains Slater. “The immediacy of making music. The instant pleasure and satisfaction of it.”

Tracklist

A Tightwire
It Will Get Worse
Me and My Flashes
Under Your Reach
How to Say Deisar
(I Wanna) Break Out
Like You’ll Lose
Music for 3 Drums
France And
Charlie’s Vox
Ripped + Torn
T.L.A.

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