Quaker Wedding released their debut, In Transit, in 2020. It’s a personal record with a lot of weight.
Which is why it was surprising to hear, just one year later, that the band had a follow-up nearly complete. That record, Total Disarray, is about as uplifting as you’d expect given the times we live in. It releases on April 15 via Salinas Records, but Scene Point Blank has the honor of premiering it first as our featured stream of the month.
The album follows suit from its predecessor:
It’s personal and sometimes painful, exploring the deeper meaning and path upward when facing adversity. It’s about, well, disarray: living through a pandemic, revisiting past homes, and trying to move ahead. It has a lot of late 1990s and early 2000s influence from the Jawbreaker school of punk, but it’s live in the now with its own merits.
Marco Reosti, bassist and songwriter shares some insight:
I would never have expected to have enough songs to head back into the studio just about a year after finishing our first LP in February of 2020. I've just never been that kind of songwriter. But the pandemic left me with a lot of time on my hands and a seemingly a lot to get off my chest. Because we didn't practice from March until September of 2020, we actually had a full record's worth of songs by the time we got together, most of which made the final cut. They all needed fine tuning, some restructuring and a lot of work on lyrics, but it was not only rewarding work but a welcome distraction from what was a very difficult winter. And then there we were, back at John Meredith's place in Queens. Recording took a while, in part because John was hit by a car while riding his bike in the Bronx during the recording process, and we had to reject a test pressing, but here we are in the Spring of 2022 and the record is done and people can hear it.
Grab a preorder and listen now.
