Zürich, Switzerland-based group District Five announces its forthcoming album, GLUT (Stone Pixel Records), due May 29 with new track “Push” ft. Saul Williams,” a manifesto against resignation and escapism. Presave GLUT here.

With the help of Grammy-nominated Sinners star Saul Williams’ deft pen and steady political voice, “Push” reiterates the District Five’s outspokenness on the consistency of injustice woven into society. Simply iterated: “Stop the genocide, Palestina libre, down with empire, power to the people, reparations now.” 

The single comes with a jittery animated video by the artist j4y, depicting the dichotomy of a New York City day, disjointed yet fluid. 

“Push” follows the spacious Juno-106 synth-laden “Place Your Bet,” on which a space-rock dread and an almost Nick Drake-like vocal melody grasps at redemption through vice. The album to come is lavish with shuffled time signatures and an encyclopedic sound language. 

Both aesthetically daring and politically astute, District Five’s music is wildly expansive and hard to pin down. KEXP has commended District Five’s “adventurous art-rock with psych and jazz undercurrents;” the group veers from texturally modern experimental jazz (think Maruja or SML) to prickly but anthemic space – rock (somewhere between The Verve and Clinic) to scabrous but math-y post-punk noise (like black midi or Lightning Bolt), all while weaving in and out of haunting, often uncomplicated, melodic passages. 

District Five is Paul Amereller (drums, percussion), Tapiwa Svosve (vocals, synth, sax), Vojko Huter (vocals, guitar, synth), and Xaver Rüegg (bass). For ten years, the four friends have been experimenting with their sound language in practice rooms, finding ways to illuminate the minutiae of their personal relationships, as well as the greater human experience. Much like their 2024 album, Come Closer, “Push,” and the music to come captures the immediacy of their live sound — with minimal cuts and overdubs.