Gottlieb have announced their long-awaited debut album, The Far Fallen Fruit, due out May 1, 2026 via Quiet Panic. The record marks a defining statement from the Los Angeles–based anarcho-punk band: furious, self-interrogating, and unflinchingly political.
The album’s first single, “Pipe Bomb,” arrives February 20, followed by a hometown single release show on February 22 at The Echo in Los Angeles. Opening with the line “Nothing more dangerous than a failed artist,” the track serves as both the thesis statement for the album and a blunt reflection of the moment it was written.
“This was written at a time when I was experiencing the contraction of the TV industry,” says vocalist Andrew Pescara. “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.”
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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 — including the confrontational urgency of Ceremony, Crass, and Refused — Gottlieb channel a sound that is volatile, direct, and uncomfortably honest. While hardcore has grown more visible and fashionable, the band uses that platform to reflect the isolating, unstable, and violent realities of the present.
At its core, The Far Fallen Fruit confronts 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.”
With a backdrop of economic precarity, political radicalization, and systemic collapse, the album reads as both eulogy and warning. 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.”
Rather than nostalgia or reformism, The Far Fallen Fruit argues for rupture. The record documents the realization that the blueprint handed down is obsolete — and that future generations will judge what comes next by what is done now.
“This album is dedicated to those who are planting better trees, whose shade they’ll never rest beneath,” claims Pescara.
Gottlieb is a punk band operating out of a co-op in central Los Angeles. Politically driven and creatively ambitious, the band combines post-punk tension with the ferocity of classic hardcore, balancing confrontational ideas with an accessible, hook-driven approach.
Known for their propagandist lyrics, explosively raw live shows, and outspoken activism against police violence, ICE, billionaires, and oligarchy, Gottlieb frame their music as both cultural resistance and collective catharsis.
Violent poetry for residents of a failing empire. Radical punk for a broader audience.
Gottlieb is vocalist Andrew Pescara, bassist Dylan Marquez, guitarist Mike Carnarius, and drummer Dave Chessey. Formed by Pescara and Marquez in early 2020, just months before the COVID-19 pandemic, the band has previously released two EPs — Dear Heroes and I Am This Place. Their breakout track “Scarcity” has repeatedly gone viral during periods of political unrest.