Los Angeles anarcho-punk four-piece Gottlieb have spent the last few years building something volatile from a co-op in central LA — two EPs, a viral track in “Scarcity” that kept resurfacing during moments of political unrest, and a live reputation that sounds like it leaves rooms different than it found them. Now they’re putting it all into a full-length. “The Far Fallen Fruit” lands May 1 via Quiet Panic, and its first single “Pipe Bomb” drops tomorrow, February 20.
The record is entirely self-produced — recording, mixing, artwork, all of it handled in-house. Ten tracks, running from “Pipe Bomb” through “Sugar Packets,” with titles like “I Started Carrying a Knife Today,” “Optimized Child,” and a two-part suite called “Dogs” that splits the record in half. A limited pressing of 100 copies on clear vinyl with black, white, and apple splatter is up for preorder now through Bandcamp.
“Pipe Bomb” opens with the line “Nothing more dangerous than a failed artist” — and vocalist Andrew Pescara says that’s not posturing. “This was written at a time when I was experiencing the contraction of the TV industry,” he explains.
“I was alongside my peers on strike, watching our dreams die in a business suffocated by billion-dollar deals. It’s a commentary on the commodification of workers across industries, where our lifelong wellbeing amounts to an accounting error.” He pushes further: “That kind of disenfranchisement is treated as normal — like white supremacy or a homemade bomb. It’s a cheap investment made from standard household ingredients.”
The band draws from the punk side of hardcore — Ceremony, Crass, Refused — and will serve a tasty treat for fans Chat Pile, Idles, Soul Glo, Militarie Gun, and Bob Vylan. New Noise described their intensity as carrying “a melodic quality derived from when bands like Heroin first emerged.” That’s a fair read. There’s post-punk tension underneath the confrontation, hooks buried in the chaos, and the political content isn’t a layer on top — it’s structural.
Pescara frames the album around something generational and irreversible. “Our generation is in an antagonistic, mutually destructive relationship with the United States of America,” he says.
“The American Ideal has crumbled, and the American Dream is something we’ve been forced to reject — even while hoping it could still be recovered.” Bassist Dylan Marquez puts it in blunter terms: “We are the first generation projected to have a shorter, lower-quality life than our parents. The apple has fallen very, very far from the tree.”
That’s where the album title clicks. “The Far Fallen Fruit” isn’t metaphor for the sake of it — it’s the distance between what was promised and what actually arrived. The record doesn’t call for a return to anything. It argues for rupture, for scrapping the inherited blueprint. Gottlieb operate alongside Bleach Collective and have been vocal about police violence, ICE, billionaires, and oligarchy. The music is framed as resistance and catharsis in equal measure. Their own description — “violent poetry for residents of a failing empire” — does the work.
Pescara closes with a dedication: “This album is dedicated to those who are planting better trees, whose shade they’ll never rest beneath.”
The single release show goes down February 22 at The Echo in Los Angeles. Full tracklist and upcoming dates below.
Gottlieb live:
2/22 — Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo (headlining, “Pipe Bomb” single release show)
3/13 — Tacoma, WA @ Real Art
3/14 — Corvallis, OR @ CorvMC
3/28 — Long Beach, CA @ Dipiazza’s
Gottlieb is Andrew Pescara (vocals), Dylan Marquez (bass), Mike Carnarius (guitar), and Dave Chessey (drums).
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