page_title: Wildlife (La Dispute album)
section_title: Release and promotion
hierarchical_section_title: Wildlife (La Dispute album) / Release and promotion
caption_attribution_description: English: La Dispute performing November 11, 2011 at the House of Blues in San Diego, California. Left to right: guitarist Kevin Whittemore, bassist Adam Vass, singer Jordan Dreyer, and guitarist Chad Sterenberg. Drummer Brad Vanger Lugt is not visible behind Dreyer.
context_page_description: Wildlife is the third studio album by American post-hardcore band La Dispute, released October 4, 2011, on independent label No Sleep Records. Recording sessions for the album took place primarily at StadiumRed in New York City in April 2011. The band members took control of all of the production duties alongside the album's recording engineers, Andrew Everding and Joseph Pedulla. Wildlife was their last release on No Sleep Records before forming their own record label, Better Living.
  Noted by music writers for its varied elements, Wildlife incorporates musical components from La Dispute's previous releases, particularly Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair and Here, Hear III., and genres such as screamo, progressive rock and post-rock. The album features lyrical themes that – while making several references to the band's home town of Grand Rapids – focus on personal loss, anger, and despair and, in the vision of the band, is a collection of unpublished "short stories" from a hypothetical author, complete with the author’s notes and sectioned thematically by the use of four monologues.
context_section_description: Throughout their European tour in August 2011, La Dispute performed a new song titled "Edit Your Hometown". Once the tour was finished, La Dispute wrote a blog post titled "Arrivals" that announced the track listing, the album art, and the first single, titled "Harder Harmonies." It became available to stream on August 23, 2011, in conjunction with the album's announcement. On September 9 the seventh track, "The Most Beautiful Bitter Fruit" was released online to stream. On September 23, La Dispute uploaded the entire album to stream on their official website and Facebook page. The album was released internationally on October 4, 2011. On October 26, 2011, Wildlife was released in Germany with German alternative magazine Visions. They promoted the initial release of the album by supporting Thrice's headline tour across the United States in October and November 2011.
  For one day on December 25, 2011, La Dispute made all of their discography, including Wildlife, free to download with an opportunity to donate money to 826michigan, a Michigan-based, non-profit organization dedicated to supporting students ages 6 to 18 with creative writing and to helping teachers to inspire their students to write. Donations on that day totaled $1,600.
  Throughout 2012 La Dispute went on a series of headline tours that acted as promotion for Wildlife, with tour legs in Europe, Australia and North America. La Dispute's European tour took place over January and early February with support from Former Thieves. Their Australian tour started four days after their European tour, and instead of having a permanent support band, they had a different lineup every night, composed of local bands. The North American leg of the tour started in late March, lasting into June and had support from Balance and Composure, Sainthood Reps, and All Get Out. At their shows in the United States in April, the band collaborated with 826michigan once again to release 150 limited-edition packets at their shows. These packets included their CD "Conversations", which annotates the lyrical themes in Wildlife in depth, along with rare photos, a poster, postcards and other items. In June 2012, the band made several festival appearances in Europe including Download Festival, Greenfield Festival, Hurricane Festival and Southside Festival, during a short European tour with Hot Water Music. La Dispute planned to do a third European tour with Title Fight and Make Do and Mend in September and October 2012.
  As La Dispute have promoted their music on headline tours they have tried to create a play different songs and create a different experience for each live show. They have also used songs after a certain period of time: an example is 'King Park', which although was initially considered too emotionally draining for live performances, the band eventually started to play the song live. The band played 'St Paul Missionary Baptist Church Blues' from Wildlife at its first performance in September 2012.
caption: La Dispute performing in 2011. During the initial promotion of the album the band refrained from performing selected songs, such as "King Park", which they believed were too "emotionally draining" for live shows.[29]
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