[Cover photo credit to Alex Webster]

Los Angeles-based anarcho-Punk band Gottlieb have announced their debut album, The Far Fallen Fruit, due out May 1, 2026 via Quiet Panic. The album is “furious, self-interrogating, and unflinchingly political.”

The album’s first single, “Pipe Bomb,” is out now and “serves as both the thesis statement for the album and a blunt reflection of the moment it was written.”

Vocalist Andrew Pescara says of the track:

This was written at a time when I was experiencing the contraction of the TV industry. 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. 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 Far Fallen Fruit is entirely self-Produced by the band, from artwork to recording and mixing. Drawing influence from the Punk side of Hardcore, Gottlieb sets out to be “uncomfortably honest.” They particularly want to “reflect the isolating, unstable, and violent realities of the present.”

At its core, The Far Fallen Fruit is “a generational reckoning.”

As Pescara explains:

Our generation is in an antagonistic, mutually destructive relationship with the United States of America. 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 adds:

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.

Pescara concludes, more hopefully:

This album is dedicated to those who are planting better trees, whose shade they’ll never rest beneath.

Upcoming shows:

• 3/13 – Tacoma, WA @ Real Art 
• 3/14 – Corvallis, OR @ CorvMC 
• 3/28 – Long Beach, CA @ Dipiazza’s
• 4/7 – Sacramento, Cafe Colonial (w/ Filth Is Eternal)
• 4/8 – San Francisco, Kilowatt  (w/ Filth Is Eternal)
• 4/9 – Ventura County TBD  (w/ Filth Is Eternal)
• 4/10 – San Diego, Tower Bar  (w/ Filth Is Eternal)
• 4/11 – Tijuana, MX TBD  (w/ Filth Is Eternal)
• 5/2- Los Angeles, CA @ Oblivion
• 6/10-7/1 – U.S. Tour