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Premiere: Discus Shares New Single “Alignment, Misattributions”

New Album, To Relate To Due out on March 28th via SUN-ROM

Jan 14, 2025 Photography by Clare Byrne

Chicago-based brothers Jake and Paul Stolz have been playing together in various bands since their early teens and are currently busy recording and touring as members of various indie bands including Varsity, Pool Holograph, and Central Heat Exchange. Amidst all that, they’ve also found time for another project, Discus. Where their other projects mostly find the brothers filling out the rhythm section, Discus puts them front and center, crafting a wry and wiry style of indie rock. The band debuted with their 2019 album, Something Has Happened, and they are set to return this year with a new album, To Relate To, arriving on March 28th via SUN-ROM.

Ahead of the album’s release, the band shared the record’s lead single, “On Tour,” and today they’re back with another track, “Alignment, Misattributions,” premiering with Under the Radar.

“Alignment, Misattributions” brings a breezy, dreamlike energy out of the band, coloring their chiming guitar lines and slacker rock vocal delivery with washes of plaintive melody. Jake Stolz croons and sighs his way through the track, dancing atop free-floating keys and twangy, interlocking guitar lines. Yet, there are hints of tension and discord playing at the track’s margins, which come out as the vocals quiet down and the band settles into a meandering groove in its second half. Lyrically, the track takes its title from Jake’s years spent as a technician in a neuroscience lab and traces the imperfect process of recalling a memory and relaying it to someone else.

As the band explains, “‘Alignment, Misattributions’ weighs the potential benefits and perils of accessing a memory, finding yourself inside a strange and flawed version of that memory (whale-watching on the third day of the COVID pandemic), relaying the experience to someone at a party, going off on a tangent griping about paying taxes to a broken state, realizing the other person is not interested in anything you’re saying, and leaving the party.”

Check out the song and video below. To Relate To is out on March 28th via SUN-ROM. Pre-order the album here.



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