Anything la dispute. I find la dispute to be extremely proletarian music, although not outright revolutionary. “Hudsonville MI 1956” is my favorite example of the people-centered nature of their music. “Nine” is phenomenal in this regard, too. The “Wildlife” album goes into extreme intimate detail about facets of human suffering and empathy I’ve never seen any other band begin to approach.

People should rightfully be nervous about getting band tattoos as image for bands in the punk/post-hardcore scene can flip on a dime because of how many abusers there are in the scene. I got my tattoo 4 years ago and don’t regret it whatsoever. The band continues and continues to impress me with their support for feminist and pro-LGBT causes and ideas. They have some of the safest shows out of any musicians for women and people at risk for assault because they train their security specifically to be on the lookout for abusers / gropers and have an absolute no-tolerance policy for that shit.

There’s some memes around about la dispute being whiney or whatever, and I understand it not being to peoples’ personal tastes, but outright disdain for the band and music based on internet shitheads makes me sad and I think people are missing out on really hard-hitting experiences by passing them up.