Gottlieb Reveal New Single “I Started Carrying A Knife Today”

Los Angeles anarcho-punk collective Gottlieb have unveil their new single, I Started Carrying A Knife Today, that is a stark and deeply personal track pulled from their forthcoming debut album, The Far Fallen Fruit, that is due out on May 1st via Quiet Panic. Known for confronting systemic issues with unrelenting intensity, the band shifts inward here, delivering one of their most intimate and psychologically charged songs to date. Where previous singles documented collective unrest and external conflict, I Started Carrying A Knife Today zooms in on the internal fallout, the moment when fear, pressure, and disillusionment begin to reshape how a person moves through the world. Driven by tense, coiled instrumentation and a mounting sense of paranoia, the track captures the psychological shift from openness to guardedness, where self-preservation begins to blur into something more isolating and dangerous. The result is a song that feels less like a statement and more like a confession.

“The most personal of the singles, I Started Carrying A Knife Today was written at a moment in which vulnerability failed me. With growing threats in several areas, I wrote this on a day when I started carrying a literal knife for the first time. This symbolized a closing off from the world; the knife is an allegory for dishonesty, which we all use at varying degrees as a measure of self-protection. By choosing to be less up front with people, by assuming their motives may be dangerous ones. I pick up a weapon that allows me to adequately handle them if needed.” (vocalist Andrew Pescara)

Entirely self-produced, from recording and mixing to artwork, The Far Fallen Fruit finds Gottlieb operating with complete autonomy, channeling influences like Ceremony, Crass, and Refused into a sound that refuses to separate personal experience from political reality. At its core, the album reflects a generation grappling with instability, distrust, and the erosion of shared ideals. Within that framework, I Started Carrying A Knife Today stands as a defining moment, not of outward rebellion, but of internal fracture, where survival instincts begin to reshape identity itself. Gottlieb will support the single and upcoming album with a run of West Coast dates and a full U.S. tour this summer.