War on Drugs

Singles were kinda misleading (except Change maybe)

It's a very good album.
poppier, with elements of Sophisti-Pop and New Wave that makes it sound different (at long last), in a good way

Good album, sounds like it was written during a long tour, away from family, in the rain, with John Waite's "Missing You" on repeat.

Good album, sounds like it was written during a long tour, away from family, in the rain, with John Waite's "Missing You" on repeat.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, October 29, 2021

Here comes the wave. Sob Rock was just the beginning!

https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/29/entertainment/fetty-wap-arrested/index.html

FYI, this thread is on ILM and about the band

it can be both

Sorry, maybe that was in poor taste. Not trying to dunk on Fetty Wap btw

it can be both

― gman59, Friday, October 29, 2021

please no

No ones taking about the album ???

Ahhh changes > I don’t wanna

Into the great wide I don’t live here anymore open

why does it all sound like Mr. Mister

or Don Henley (or whatever slick 80s sound I'm thinking of)

Making Michelob Commercials to Make Music to Make Michelob Commercials To

lol

Album makes me feel like Im waiting for cold cuts at the supermarket deli

this is much more successful at the sound he's going for than the last few, there's real dynamics and drama instead of flattening any of that out into aimless ambience like he usually has been inclined to do.

I am hearing that this album is absolutely terrible and am afraid to listen to it

Nah, it's fine. More of the same, more or less.

I love @TheWarOnDrugs album and now I have so many more great songs for my War On Drugs + Dire Straits tribute act Narc Knopfler

— Jason IsBOO (@JasonIsbell) October 29, 2021

Shut up Jason Isbell

so it doesn't sound like bryan adams? because that was perpetua's take. note the only WoD album I have and have listened to was Lost in a Dream.

it more or less sounds like that. I don't think you would confuse it for any other band.

yeah it's not a huge departure or anything, just the songwriting's a bit more focused at the expense of the ambient noodling

i like the album. the last bit from "Old Skin" to "Occasional Rain" is everything I wanted from this new one.

could also be in a subcategory of new music that will eventually be played in CVS

as usual with me & them... I like the live versions better - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKJ5JyuP7WY

Robbie Bennett plays good piano & organ w Rosali (& "Crazy Horse," everybody agrees, actually David Nance Group): https://rosali.bandcamp.com/album/no-medium

xpost yeah this take on “I don’t live here anymore” grooves hard