Past Lives

Past Lives is the debut studio album by American supergroup L.S. Dunes. It was released on November 11, 2022 by Fantasy Records and distributed through Concord. Three singles preceded the album's release: "Permanent Rebellion", "2022", and "Bombsquad". Background and recording The seeds for L.S. Dunes were sown during rehearsals for Thursday's 2020 Christmas livestream, where guitarists Frank Iero and Travis Stever engaged in "serendipitous, impromptu jam sessions" alongside Thursday bassist Tim Payne and drummer Tucker Rule, where they had an "instantaneous" chemistry. Although there weren't originally plans for an album, the members of L.S. Dunes continued writing songs and convened in person for the first time in mid-2021, with time booked to record at the end of that year. The band had fully formed and individually recorded their parts on Past Lives before landing on Anthony Green as a vocalist, who wasn't aware who was in the group when he began recording vocals. Past Lives was produced by Will Yip who tracked the band at his Studio 4 Recording space in Philadelphia. A month before studio time in September, Iero slipped from a ladder and broke his wrist which delayed the session to December. Composition Past Lives is a post-hardcore and emo album. The album opens with "2022", a track which originally appeared on Green's solo album Boom. Done. (2022) but was removed from digital versions of the album. It is a "somber" and "hypnotic" song. The song has been described by Green as "the most fucked-up" and "personal" he ever wrote. "Antibodies" is a "frenetic" and "driving" track, which was the first they had completed work on. "Grey Veins" is a "masterful" emo composition with a "massive" chorus, high vocals and "thundering" drums. "Like Forever" features "bouncy, intricate" guitarwork by Stever, while "Blender" has a prominent bassline.