To Have and To Hold is not a biography, a lecture, or a historical reconstruction. It is an imagined world — one you step into to feel your way around an idea rather than to learn it.

The album takes place loosely in early-20th-century Cambridge, at the moment when Western thought was beginning to strain under its own certainty. Science had proved astonishingly powerful at breaking reality into parts, explaining mechanisms, and producing results — yet at the same time it was encountering problems it could no longer fully contain. Probability was replacing certainty. Events mattered as much as objects. Meaning no longer sat still.

Out of this tension emerged process philosophy: the idea that reality is not made of finished things, but of ongoing happenings — that love, time, marriage, and even truth itself are not states you reach, but activities you keep participating in.

The album imagines this moment through a human lens. A mathematician trying to complete a system of logic. A thinker insisting that nothing important is ever truly finished. Proofs accumulating. Years passing. A marriage understood first as a statement, then slowly revealed as a practice. Love appearing not as romance in the foreground, but as something quietly unfolding elsewhere — happening whether it is attended to or not.

Rather than explaining these ideas directly, the songs allow you to inhabit them. You hear bells ring. You feel evenings close in. You sense the weight of unfinished work and the relief of letting something continue without control. The philosophy is not taught; it is lived.

This is a soft documentary in sound — an audio quantum leap into a world. Its purpose is not accuracy, quotation, or instruction, but immersion. By the time the album ends, you may not be able to define process philosophy in a sentence — but you may feel why it arose, what problem it was answering, and why it still matters.

To Have and To Hold is an exploration of commitment not as possession, but as attention.
Of marriage not as a conclusion, but as renewal.
Of understanding not as something you arrive at — but something that keeps happening.

If you listen closely, nothing here ever quite resolves.
But something continues.

To Hold

Cease To Begin

The General Specific

The Shepherd's Dog

Boy With a Coin

All Your Favorite Bands

Things Happen

"Only The Wild Ones" is a new song from the Boston, Massachusetts band Dispatch. It appears on their new full length album America, Location 12 which is available now on iTunes, Spotify and all other digital music platforms.

Get America, Location 12:
CD/LP: http://www.dispatchmerch.com
Amazon CD/LP: http://www.smarturl.it/AL12Amazon
Stream / Download: https://dispatch.lnk.to/AmericaLocation12ID 

LYRICS:

long hair and longer stride
  and your cut off painter pants
 chargin down the craggy mountains with our thrift store friends
 who you find so... so in love with the falling earth
 oh you wake in the middle of the falling night with summer playing coy
 in the attics of the city night
 we talked corso and the MC5
you could dance like
we were all ALL right
only the wild ones, give you something and never want it back
oh the riot and the rush of the warm night air
only the wild ones, are the ones you can never catch
stars are up now no place to go... but everywhere
 one i met in the green mountain state
 i dropped out, and he moved away
 heard he got some land down south
 changed his name to a name the birds could pronounce
 only the wild ones, give you something and never want it back
 oh the riot and the rush of the warm night air
 only the wild ones, are the ones you can never catch
 stars are up now no place to go but everywhere... no place to go but everywhere
 and in the city the mayor said
 those who dance are all mislead
 so you packed your things and moved to the other coast
 said you gonna be like charlie rose
 only the wild ones, give you something and never want it back
 oh the riot and rush of the warm night air
 only the wild ones, are the ones you can never catch
 stars are up now no place to go... but everywhere
 only the wild ones, give you something and never want it back
 oh the riot and rush of the warm night air
 only the wild ones, are the ones you can never catch

Catch Dispatch on tour this summer with Guster: www.dispatchmusic.com/tour

June 15 - Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre
June 16 - Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre 
June 17 - Telluride, CO @ Telluride Bluegrass Festival
June 18 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Red Butte Garden
June 20 - Austin, TX @ Stubb's
June 22 - Birmingham, AL @ Iron City
June 23 - Charlotte, NC @ CMCU Amphitheatre
June 24 - Atlanta, GA @ Chastain Park Amphitheatre 
June 26 - Louisville, KY @ Iroquois Amphitheater
June 27 - Columbus, OH @ Express Live
June 28 - Indianapolis, IN @ White River State Park
June 30 - Milwaukee, WI @ Summerfest
July 1 - Chicago, IL @ Huntington Bank Pavilion
July 2 - Rochester Hills, MI @ Meadow Brook
July 3 - Cedar Rapids, IA @ McGrath Amphitheatre
July 6 - New York, NY @ Forest Hills Stadium
July 7 - Columbia, MD @ Merriweather Post Pavilion
July 8 - Marshfield, MA @ Levitate Festival
July 9 - Philadelphia, PA @ The Skyline Stage @ Mann Center
September 12 - London, UK @ Electric Ballroom
September 14 - Amsterdam, NL @ Melkweg
September 15 - Munich, DE @ Backstage Halle
September 16 - Hannover, DE @ Faust - Presale
September 17 - Cologne, DE @ Gloria - Presale
September 19 - Berlin, DE @ Columbia Theater
September 21 - Frankfurt, DE @ Batschkapp
September 22 - Linz, AT @ Posthof 
September 23 - Vienna, AT @ Arena Big Hall
September 24 - Zurich, CH @ Dynamo

Visit Dispatch On The Web:
http://www.dispatchmusic.com
http://www.dispatchmerch.com
http://www.facebook.com/dispatchmusic
http://www.twitter.com/dispatchmusic
http://www.instagram.com/dispatchmusic

Spotify

Only The Wild Ones

Curse + Crush

America, Location 12

Windylike

"Skin The Rabbit" is a new song from the Boston, Massachusetts band Dispatch. It appears on their new full length album America, Location 12 which is available now on iTunes, Spotify and all other digital music platforms.

Get America, Location 12:
CD/LP: http://www.dispatchmerch.com
Amazon CD/LP: http://www.smarturl.it/AL12Amazon
Stream / Download: https://dispatch.lnk.to/AmericaLocation12ID 

Lyrics:
Aw we recognize, see it in your eyes
See it in your eyes, all the lies of the megaphone

We know who you are, we’re not very far
We’re not very far, we’re the cop and the criminal

Skin the rabbit, skin skin the rabbit
There’s a lot of people saying that we’re grieving
About the track that we’re on
Skin the rabbit, skin skin the rabbit
Makes you wonder about the faces and the aces that have crawled up the arm
Skin the rabbit, can you turn my gold to wine
Stone to stone, the needle and the eye

Oil in the sand, oil in the sand,
A gun in every hand and we die like the buffalo

Feel it in the dawn, feel it in the dawn,
Won't be very long, in the age of the methadone

Skin the rabbit, skin skin the rabbit
There’s a lot of people saying that we’re grieving
About the track that we’re on
Skin the rabbit, skin skin the rabbit
Makes you wonder about the faces and the aces that have crawled up the arm
Skin the rabbit, can you turn my gold to wine
Stone to stone, the needle and the eye

Is there anyone else?
Is there anyone else?

Who can read my mind ‘cause it’s no longer mine

SUMMER 2017 TOUR DATES:
http://www.dispatchmusic.com/tour

June 15 - Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre
June 16 - Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre 
June 17 - Telluride, CO @ Telluride Bluegrass Festival
June 18 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Red Butte Garden
June 20 - Austin, TX @ Stubb's
June 22 - Birmingham, AL @ Iron City
June 23 - Charlotte, NC @ CMCU Amphitheatre
June 24 - Atlanta, GA @ Chastain Park Amphitheatre 
June 26 - Louisville, KY @ Iroquois Amphitheater
June 27 - Columbus, OH @ Express Live
June 28 - Indianapolis, IN @ White River State Park
June 30 - Milwaukee, WI @ Summerfest
July 1 - Chicago, IL @ Huntington Bank Pavilion
July 2 - Rochester Hills, MI @ Meadow Brook
July 3 - Cedar Rapids, IA @ McGrath Amphitheatre
July 6 - New York, NY @ Forest Hills Stadium
July 7 - Columbia, MD @ Merriweather Post Pavilion
July 8 - Marshfield, MA @ Levitate Festival
July 9 - Philadelphia, PA @ The Skyline Stage @ Mann Center
September 12 - London, UK @ Electric Ballroom
September 14 - Amsterdam, NL @ Melkweg
September 15 - Munich, DE @ Backstage Halle
September 16 - Hannover, DE @ Faust - Presale
September 17 - Cologne, DE @ Gloria - Presale
September 19 - Berlin, DE @ Columbia Theater
September 21 - Frankfurt, DE @ Batschkapp
September 22 - Linz, AT @ Posthof 
September 23 - Vienna, AT @ Arena Big Hall
September 24 - Zurich, CH @ Dynamo

Dispatch on
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/dispatchmusic
Twitter: https://twitter.com/dispatchmusic
Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/dispatchmusic
Web: http://www.dispatchmusic.com/

iTunes: http://www.itunes.com/dispatch 
Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/artist/6v4jPZO3UIDNJIgdxRxtr9
T-shirts and Merch:  http://www.dispatchmerch.com

Skin The Rabbit

"Be Gone" is a new song from the Boston, Massachusetts band Dispatch. It appears on their new full length album America, Location 12 which is available now on iTunes, Spotify and all other digital music platforms.

Get America, Location 12:
CD/LP: http://www.dispatchmerch.com
Amazon CD/LP: http://www.smarturl.it/AL12Amazon
Stream / Download: https://dispatch.lnk.to/AmericaLocation12ID 

LYRICS:

Come down low
To the ground
Let the mother breathe you down

All the spirits swirling away
Hard to tell the form that they

Take up your arms
Find your heart
Does it know what you’ll do

Come and stand
Side by side
Woman, man and the battles at night

Boil that bark
Braid my hair
See that smoke hell if I care

To write all my lost brothers
Only to burn the letters
So they reach you somewhere

Be gone be gone be gone
Said the little one to the bad ways
Be gone be gone be gone
Let the fight be for another day

Dare to write all my lost brothers
Only to burn the letters
So they reach you somewhere

Be gone be gone be gone
Said the little one to the bad ways
Be gone be gone be gone
Let the fight be for another day

And i though that my mind was folding in
And I hoped that it wasn’t the rain

And he spoke of holy rollers, how they glide across the hall
And he pictured them in carousels when they were two feet tall
And he wakes up in the eye of the watchmakers dirty glass
And he swims for all the decoys and the lives that they pass

Be gone be gone be gone
Said the little one to the bad ways
Be gone be gone be gone
Let the fight be for another day

Be gone be gone be gone
Said the little one to the bad ways
Be gone be gone be gone
Let the fight be for another day

Catch Dispatch on tour this summer with Guster: www.dispatchmusic.com/tour

June 15 - Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre
June 16 - Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre 
June 17 - Telluride, CO @ Telluride Bluegrass Festival
June 18 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Red Butte Garden
June 20 - Austin, TX @ Stubb's
June 22 - Birmingham, AL @ Iron City
June 23 - Charlotte, NC @ CMCU Amphitheatre
June 24 - Atlanta, GA @ Chastain Park Amphitheatre 
June 26 - Louisville, KY @ Iroquois Amphitheater
June 27 - Columbus, OH @ Express Live
June 28 - Indianapolis, IN @ White River State Park
June 30 - Milwaukee, WI @ Summerfest
July 1 - Chicago, IL @ Huntington Bank Pavilion
July 2 - Rochester Hills, MI @ Meadow Brook
July 3 - Cedar Rapids, IA @ McGrath Amphitheatre
July 6 - New York, NY @ Forest Hills Stadium
July 7 - Columbia, MD @ Merriweather Post Pavilion
July 8 - Marshfield, MA @ Levitate Festival
July 9 - Philadelphia, PA @ The Skyline Stage @ Mann Center
September 12 - London, UK @ Electric Ballroom
September 14 - Amsterdam, NL @ Melkweg
September 15 - Munich, DE @ Backstage Halle
September 16 - Hannover, DE @ Faust - Presale
September 17 - Cologne, DE @ Gloria - Presale
September 19 - Berlin, DE @ Columbia Theater
September 21 - Frankfurt, DE @ Batschkapp
September 22 - Linz, AT @ Posthof 
September 23 - Vienna, AT @ Arena Big Hall
September 24 - Zurich, CH @ Dynamo

Visit Dispatch On The Web:
www.dispatchmusic.com
www.dispatchmerch.com
www.facebook.com/dispatchmusic
www.twitter.com/dispatchmusic
www.instagram.com/dispatchmusic

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