The Longer This Goes On (Limited Loser Edition LP)

The road to The Longer This Goes On began in a Brooklyn coffee shop in the summer of 2021. There, Guterl and Trilling met for the first time since Forth Wanderers' dissolution in 2018. The three years they'd been apart had deflated some of the pressures the band felt when they were touring their previous music: "We all felt free to mess around and have fun," Guterl says. Reconnecting with bassist Noah Schifrin, guitarist Duke Greene, and drummer Zach Lorelli made playing feel "the best it had between us since we had started the band. It felt like we were in high school again."

The band reimagined the way they were used to working. "This is the first time where a lot of the music was formed organically," Schifrin explained. "All five of us really contributed to the writing process in ways that we hadn't before in the past," Guterl added. The resulting album, produced under the watchful eye of Dan Howard, captures the band at their most present and unburdened, creating their sound in real time for the very first time. The lyrics are packed with confessionals broad enough to make anyone lost in the mess of an uncertain romantic limbo feel understood, yet so precisely written that it must have clearly come from lived experience. This is exactly what made Forth Wanderers both so universally relatable and specifically felt. On The Longer This Goes On, they've deepened that ability to pull at potent threads of romantic ennui with minimalist lyrics and lush instrumentation.

Limited 'Loser Edition' milky clear white vinyl.