Fire Track: Landowner – “Bow To Your Superior”

Landowner Wants You to Bow Down — And You Will

Landowner are dropping one last taste of their new record before Assumption lands this Friday, February 27th via Exploding In Sound Records, and it’s a sharp little ripper called “Bow To Your Superior.”

If you’re not up on Landowner yet, here’s the deal: no distortion, locked-in rhythms, and vocalist Dan Shaw talking his talk over all of it. It’s a weird combination that somehow works every single time. Think The Fall or Lungfish, but also just… Landowner. Nobody really sounds like these guys.

“Bow To Your Superior” is a quick, punchy number about rolling over for AI overlords — framed like a crummy boss you’ve been conditioned to obey. Shaw is sharp about it too, noting that they literally chose this song as a single because short tracks do better on streaming algorithms. The band bowing to AI to release a song about bowing to AI? The irony isn’t lost on them.

Assumption digs into the stories we tell ourselves — about politics, the environment, anxiety, parenthood, and the slow creep of dread that comes with paying attention to the world. Shaw works as a landscape architect by day, and that eye for built spaces and natural systems bleeds all over his writing. Fatherhood has sharpened things further, pushing him toward something more honest: maybe the world isn’t as doomed as he keeps assuming. Turns out that’s a radical thought.

The record is out Friday. Preorder it here.

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