Landowner, have shared their latest single “Bow To Your Superior,” the track is off their forthcoming album Assumption, available February 27th via Exploding In Sound Records. The track follows previous singles “Rival Males” and “Normal Returns To Normal.” The song features the powerful lyrics and vocals of Dan Shaw.

Shaw discussed the new song, saying:

“”Bow To Your Superior” is a short banger about obediently submitting to the supremacy of artificial intelligence. The lyrics suggest AI as a sort of boss we come across at work, whose high position we’ve been trained to submit to. A lot of Assumption explores how our lives are shaped by the various assumptions we all make, as we engage with media, politics, anxiety, and our own internal landscapes. ‘Bow To Your Superior’ contributes to this theme: AI essentially generates output based on computers making assumptions, and our culture has quickly pushed us to bow to this new tool. We assume AI can do the thinking for us. We’re submitting to AI’s authority by choosing ‘Bow To Your Superior’ as a single, because, as you may know, short songs perform more successfully on most streaming platforms’ soulless algorithms. There’s a chance this song reached you today in part due to our obedient cooperation with the machine.”

Landowner’s initial concept was a made-up genre called “weak d-beat”, meant to sound intentionally absurd “as if Antelope were reading the sheet music of Discharge,” says Shaw. When the vocalist was joined by his current bandmates (guitarists Elliot Hughes and Jeff Gilmartin, bassist and backup vocalist Josh Owsley, and drummer Josh Daniel) in 2017, they translated these early experiments in restraint and caricatured hardcore as a live band.

Shaw continues: “As the album progresses, I am increasingly addressing my own assumptions, specifically the assumption that the world is doomed and my kids will experience increasing suffering,” he explains. “I end up reminding myself that this view is indeed itself an assumption, or is at least simplistic, and I am not an all-knowing prophet. This insight has been deeply valuable to me, in learning to cope with personal-level crises and anxieties, or more global-scale worries. Things usually turn out differently than I assume, and that’s a simple but deeply valuable thing to realize.”

Landowner
Assumption
Exploding in Sound Records

1. Assumption
2. Pray for the Environment
3. Linear Age
4. Rival Males
5. Expensive Rent
6. Enemy Attack
7. Uninhabitable
8. Parapet Wall
9. Unboxing
10. Slippery Abyss
11. Bow to Your Superior
12. Normal Returns to Normal

Landowner 2026 Tour Dates

02/27 Medford MA @ Deep Cuts w/ Rong, Balaclava, & Dust Witch
04/18 Washington DC @ Rhizome
04/19 Richmond, VA @ TBA
04/20 Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506
04/21 Atlanta, GA @ TBA
04/22 Louisville, KY @ Mag Bar
04/23 St Louis, MO @ Kerr Foundation
04/24 Chicago, IL @ Sleeping Village
04/25 Minneapolis, MN @ Soft Cult Studio
04/26 Milwaukee, WI @ Cactus Club
04/27 Cleveland, OH @ Little Rose Tavern
04/28 Buffalo, NY @ TBA

Pre-order Assumption by Landowner HERE