No More Sound, Sad Park's third full-length, begins with an ending. More specifically, with its own ending. Because the short, just-over-a-minute-long "No More Songs" is kind of a stripped-down reprise of the title track that closes this record. In one way, it means this album_the band's first for Pure Noise_travels back in time over its 38 or so minutes, but in another it's also travelling forwards. Because while "No More Sound" is a more fleshed-out version of "No More Songs", it also contains melodic and lyrical throwbacks to the eleven songs that sit between them. Perhaps more importantly, as everything comes full circle on the record, it offers something that the opener doesn't. ?"I wanted you to really hear the song's darker lyrics in the beginning," explains vocalist/guitarist Graham Steele, "then once you hear them again at the end, there's maybe some sense of hope_a sense that you've kind of gone through something and have learned something from it. So once you get to the end, those lyrics take on a little bit of a different meaning. This was the first album where we really thought through everything and tried to create some sort of story." It's not that Sad Park_who formed in Los Angeles in 2015_weren't capable of that before, but on No More Sound the band worked with AJJ's Sean Bonnette, who oversaw production and collaborated with Steele on the lyric writing process too. He helped Steele, bassist/vocalist Sam Morton, drummer Grant Bubar and guitarist Aidan Memory not only create a record that flows, musically and thematically, from beginning to end, but which also sees the four-piece truly discover and become who they are as a band.?"With our previous records," says Steele, "I was listening to a lot of bands and then trying to write like them, like `We really like FIDLAR and Together Pangea, so we're going to write music that really sounds like that.' This album feels a lot more like us as a band, like really sitting down and writing whatever was in us. It's the first album where we found what our sound is as individual musicians."