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Real life angel person Jeff Rosenstock (just look at that face) has ever so casually just dropped his fourth full-length album, NO DREAM ! ! ! Listen in full right now and snag a Pay What You Want download via Quote Unquote Records (all donations going to Food Not Bombs). Pre-order your limited edition glow in the dark Early Bird copy from the Polyvinyl Store, along with a tie-dye tee, blacklight poster, coloring set (book AND pencils), and sleep mask. NO DREAM arrives in stores August 21.

NO DREAM comes at a time of unparalleled chaos and confusion, division and despair, the depths of which would have been impossible to predict when much of it was being written over the course of the last few years. And yet the record feels prescient, unexpectedly and uniquely suited for this moment. Newly settled in Los Angeles after a lifetime on the East Coast (namely Brooklyn by way of Long Island), Rosenstock recorded NO DREAM with Jack Shirley (Deafheaven, Hard Girls, Joyce Manor) at Oakland's Atomic Garden, and even took on mixing duties alongside Shirley for the first time. Opting to stay off the computer "even more than usual" and record to tape with outboard gear, the result is a lived-in sound that gives each song its own individual voice and organic energy. 

Today at 12 PM PT / 3 PM ET, Jeff Rosenstock will host a NO DREAM album stream listening party with a fan Q&A over on our YouTubes. Tune in HERE, and remember: we don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents...

"It was feeling like a very personal record for me," says Rosenstock. "A lot of it was stemming from the anxiety I was feeling from the last two years, this existential crisis of wondering who I am." Rosenstock has found himself in a surprising position. As he puts it simply: "I didn't expect to be doing well, in my life, ever."

After building a cult following with the acerbic ska-punk of the Arrogant Sons of Bitches and DIY heroics of Bomb the Music Industry!, Rosenstock’s first proper solo record, 2015's We Cool?, was a step into uncharted territory, fully untethered from genre and expectation. Followed by 2016's WORRY. and the surprise New Year's Day launch of POST-  in the early hours of 2018, Rosenstock was facing down that least punk of opportunities: a career playing music. NO DREAM arrives with an entirely new set of expectations in an entirely new era. The greatest surprise is that Rosenstock's deeply personal self doubt is expressed in a way that captures a universal feeling of shock and uncertainty, his own growing anxieties about his place in the world holding space for our own. 

"I thought I had just made a record for no one," he says. "What's the point of feeling this way? Does it help to vocalize it?" Rosenstock's rhetorical question is answered by NO DREAM, an accidentally universal record for a damaged, difficult time.