War on Drugs

lol @ Produced by Urban Outfitters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErQH5-1ot4w

otm

saw these guys on sunday -- pretty solid show, though having purling hiss as your opener is going to make even the greatest band sound a little bit sluggish.

My copy of the tape mentioned upthread finally arrived today. Looking forward to hearing Side 2...

new track sounds familiar but still good
"taking the farm" from the debut is still my favorite

I hope this record is good because it bumped a bunch of my recording sessions

http://m.soundcloud.com/secretlycanadian/the-war-on-drugs-red-eyes/

Good news!souns great! Like Slave Ambient part two but that's fine with me.

Is it Adam ob the cover of the record?
So is War On Drugs just a moniker of his name?

I guess so...I always liked to think of them as a band but maybe it's just Adam.

Did Kurt Vile used to play with these guys? Anyone know what tracks/record specifically?

Kurt Vile used to be in the band, the wikipedia entry is pretty good as far as what his contributions were.

Very often I cannot tell these guys apart - although KV stresses the stoner ennui a bit more, while War on Drugs have a bit of a Springsteen thingy.
Anyway, although Slave Ambient was one of my favourite records of these past 5 years, I'm not really sure whether I need another album from these guys.

Youre last sentence makes no sense

Love this band's songwriting, but I wish they'd change their production style. The gauzy atmospherics doesn't do their songs justice.

xp - really? You've never had that feeling where you love an album but don't need to hear anything more from that band?

Without the gauzy atmospherics they'd basically just be Kurt Vile mk II and who wants that?

agreed - the gauze is the main draw, hence why Slave Ambient >> first lp

Like, other than Baby Missiles, I'm not sure "songwriting" is one of their main strengths at all.

The first and last song presents great song wriying as well

this album is so fucking rad

meaning the new one

New album is just brilliant. So warm and comforting, even though it's pretty miserable. As if Springsteen and the E Street Band had made an album with Mark Knopfler in between BITUSA and ToL, but all concerned happened to have been listening only to Neu at the time.

Can't wait to hear this. 'Slave Ambient' was a big record for me.

Interesting you mention Knopfler as Dylan's 'Series of Dreams' (which he plays on) sounds like the prerequisite for War on Drugs.

Yeah excited as well - so this is Slave Ambient II, I gather (not a bad thing)?

More like he realised Tiny Missiles was the best song on Slave Ambient and based the album around that … Lots of lazy Knopfler lead guitar lines all over it.

Oooh, that sounds great. Definitely ready for a new album by these guys

it is much more minimalistic than Baby Missiles.
it's good, though Slave Ambient had more hooks. this one seems a little unfocused maybe.

BTW, i see more Springsteen doing 80's Sophisti-pop than Dire STRaits

The single is fantastic, if it's all in that vein I am 100% down with this project.

it's not all rippers but the ones like "red eye" are all killer

I mean I really, really like Slave Ambient as well so I'm happy with some balance here.

i won't be surprised if they like Destroyer's Kaputt.

i discovered the war on drugs because they opened up for destroyer on the kaputt tour, thought they sounded like a rad space rock tom petty or something

the sequencing on this album reminds me of their live show in that they got the bangers out of the way at the beginning and then just let the jam ride for the rest

"rad space rock tom petty " is exactly how I describe this band to people

I'm only five tracks in but this fucking rules.

Also Dire Straits are just about the only thing left from the 80s to be properly revived but they're all over this record.

Eyes To The Wind is amazing, how many instrumental lines are there weaving in and out of one another by the end?

One of the things I love about the record is that it's packed full of hooks, but very very few of them are chorus/vocal hooks – they're almost all guitar lines that are used incredibly judiciously for maximum impact.

Must write up my Granduciel interview …

This is all up on yo***be now ...

Been listening all morning, really enjoying it. the 4 min ambient outro to the first track kills the pace a bit though.

almost all of the songs have this problem on this record, but i can live with that

is this streaming anywhere yet?

it's on grooveshark. was listening to it yesterday.

thx!

yrwlcm!

Hearing a bit of early Spitiualized in the ambient sections

listening to the album stream on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0PxpilZvjc

this is great. it's a cross between tom petty solo, dire straights, and 80s-era springsteen. if you had asked me, before listening to this, if i wanted a "nu" version of any of those acts, i'd have said "no." but i love this.

opening of burning sounds just like rod stewart's young turks

going in for my third listen today, but i think i'll probably start on the second half. i think the lengthy spaced out jams on the first side are awesome but they kind of make me burned out by the time i hit the other side.

best thing i've heard this year.

After having spent a week with this, I am inclined to agree.