Commitment

Booking Agent : Viunca Bolacchi & Ricky Biondetti

Commitment is an inevitability.
Guitarist Jake Smith and drummer Pierce Jordan knew each other for years as friends and musicians in Philadelphia who desired to explore a more straightforward and hard-hitting sound as songwriters in positions they’d played in the past, but never together. During one of many nights the two spent drinking and connecting at Smith’s bartending job, the two realized both their schedules were open enough to explore their connection musically. Smith and Jordan spent months playing together and getting a feel for each other’s styles and viewpoints, specifically not making choices about a name or which influences to prioritize until the lineup was complete.
As plain as it is that Commitment is about creating a pathway to new experiences, it’s also about strengthening existing relationships. For this new project, Smith dragged his lifelong friend Zach Bailey out of rock n’ roll retirement to take up bass guitar. The two had played together in Penetrode in Philly but had previously performed in the bands No Qualms and Republicorpse before leaving Florida for Philadelphia. While not wanting to make any immediate decisions about other members, Smith and Jordan knew they wanted someone who had never played in a band before.
A newcomer in any position results in a fresh perspective and approach, and at the front of a band typically includes a raw energy that often can’t be reproduced. They found this is Tati Salazar.
Tati had mainly existed as a solo musician under the name Le Siren, and had built a significant listenership doing so. True as can be to the world of music, but new to singing in a hardcore punk band, Tati jumped in feet first, fitting in so naturally as the band’s vocalist that the rest of the band initially struggled to practice or even correctly perceive their new material without them.
Having initially met Jordan in Pittsburgh as The Childlike Empress while he traveled with Soul Glo, Tati became friends with Smith through his bartending as well, meeting traveled with Soul Glo, Tati became friends with Smith through his bartending as well, meeting Bailey through the band. With a demo entirely composed by Smith, Commitment rocked their first shows locally before completing short tours with Chicago’s Stress Positions in August and December of 2025, while also doing a solo tour in November.
Now, Commitment are set to release their full length, Fear Of, on LA-via-Philadelphia label Get Better Records.
Half a rerecording/reimagining of their demo, and half songs that Smith and Jordan wrote for the record, Fear Of is a first step in a 4 person collaboration that hasn’t even begun to put a foot forward yet.
Lyrically, the themes of Fear Of include sexual liberation, sacred rage, vengeance, violence, insecurity, surveillance, overconsumption, social media, and mind control/brainwashing, while Tati more specifically has to say that the songs typically deal with, “…the irony of the most ignorant, hateful people in the world looking down upon sex workers, trans people, queer people, people on the left, etc. and thinking that we are the source of all the world’s suffering meanwhile the most egregiously evil, greedy, disgusting people are the ones making the rules for the whole world.
“Fear Of” matches these lyrical themes with raw punk, hardcore, and d-beat inspired music that essentially results in fast punk that sometimes includes groove as often as it does blast beats. Recorded by Kevin Bernsten of Triac and Eye Flys (the latter he played in with Smith) at his Developing Nations studio in Baltimore, Fear Of is a deceptively simple record with deep lyrical premise.
Commitment aims to peel off listener’s faces, leaving only grinning skulls and exposed brains as the canvas for Tati’s indoctrination. The formula is quite simple, but the result isn’t. “I think it all ties together like an ouroboros.
I think the way the common person experiences life is completely burdened with the ugliness of the manmade world: genocide, imperialism, ecological destruction, poverty, dead end jobs, inability to disconnect from our phones, constantly being advertised shit that will “make our lives better, constantly being advertised shit that will “make our lives better, ” and I think things like embracing sex and rage, in-person connection, and divesting from the online world and actually fighting back are what break us out of this really bizarre simulation we’ve all been corralled into.
But also if all we are is sex and rage then that becomes overindulgence and leads to more corruption so also kind of looking at the ugliness and hopelessness of that. There’s really no right answer to get out of the suffering and I think a lot of the album is me digging into that.”

Fear Of arrives on Get Better Records April 3rd, 2026.

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