War on Drugs

I take back what I said about everything sounding like "Baby Missiles" now that I've gotten to know the record better. That said, I still don't think there is as much variety here as on Slave Ambient. This is really dragging for me by the final third. I like all the extended instrumental bits on these songs but I wish they'd flow into each other a little more--to make a greater whole. Instead each track sort of goes on for a while and then peters out, and then Granduciel starts all over again with the next track. It gets a little tedious. Again going back to Slave Ambient, there is such a great run from "Your Love Is Calling My Name" to "The Animator" to "Come to the City" to "Come for It." This album sort of reaches toward that level of flow but doesn't actually attain it.

― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Sunday, March 23, 2014 11:27 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

See, for me, War On Drugs is this album preceded by Future Weather, which I thought was far superior to Slave Ambient (I realize I'm in the minority here; no one ever seems to talk about that EP). I think I agree with a lotta folks here that LITD is a sort of culmination of the band's myriad strengths (so far), but then, I also like their slow-burning ones as much as the "Baby Missles"-y ones ("Suffering" is a favorite on the new one). If anything, I think there is more variety on this one than the last. Not necessarily in the arrangements, but in the songs, absolutely.

Otm on Future Weather > Slave Ambient

hahahaha of course! lee atwater!

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (February 17, 2014) – This March, PBS viewers will be treated to the world television premiere of a never-before-seen historic concert featuring Sam Moore and some of the biggest names in blues, soul and rock history performing their greatest hits. Recorded during a live Presidential Inaugural Concert Event in 1989 for President George H.W. Bush, the video and audiotapes of this concert were presumed lost for nearly 20 years after the untimely death of Lee Atwater, the concert organizer and host.

I like the Bryan Adams vibe :(

I hear more of that than of The Boss, but that's probably because I grew up listening to the former and not the latter.

Um...recs?

I'm hearing a lot of peak-era Live on the new album, esp. "Suffering"

i mean, isn't all pop music, at this point, fairly mature and innovation/revelation is either "in the details" or in small incremental moves?

― Daniel, Esq 2, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 17:49 (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is what I'm up against huh

listened to about 15 minutes or so of this album and it was much, much more dull than 'spacerock tom petty' made it sound :( tom petty had some fukken jams. anyway, opinions vmic, keep on keepin' aor, ilx

this is what I'm up against huh

― imago, Tuesday, March 25, 2014

this is what you face, in this war on the war on drugs.

yeah this was p boring i thought

Peak-era Live, eh

This war's over

who won?!?

Noone wins a war

well, the right won the war on christmas, with almost no casualties.

*pre-total obscurity Live

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Man, is there any other ILM thread that is this jam-packed with simply naming every last influence and/or reference point? If this record is at all worth a damn I think it's time to move on from this line.

(Also, Live comment ridiculously off the mark.)

listened to about 15 minutes or so of this album and it was much, much more dull than 'spacerock tom petty' made it sound :( tom petty had some fukken jams. anyway, opinions vmic, keep on keepin' aor, ilx

― imago

my boy

the space rock thing has been overplayed a bit I think, it doesn't sound like e.g. Hawkwind! also pgwp is on the money, personally I think the record transcends its influences, but it's difficult to pin down exactly why, perhaps that's the problem other people are having too?

jesus christ some indie rock band remembers to write a melody and you guys shit your pants

it's like if shaq remembered how to make free throws

or if like Shaq decided to act

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aCIarBvhDw#t=37

was bummed they didn't play this at the show the other night

Haha. '80s AOR G.D. OTM!

someone on my FB wall a couple days ago predicted they'd cover "Touch of Grey." Need to send him a kewpie doll.

Man, is there any other ILM thread that is this jam-packed with simply naming every last influence and/or reference point?

The 1975?

video is from 2011 xp

So you're saying he was really ahead of his time?

My mother likes it.

At long last: music that we both love..

this record is deceptive. like when you first got rubiks cube and you were all like "aw hell, no way am I touching something inspired by hungarian physicists

but then over breakfat,the potatoes warmed themselves and you were all like "ah hell this record is so good, he is revealing the soul, like jung in the red book.

disappearing is like the masculin/feminin response to HAIM's forever

a meditation on the soul, in both its provisional and eternal aspects. what apprehends is forever, the other stuff is ornament. as was, there was a lot of detriment in my blood and that of others, but in listening to this record i realized that I had hugely erred and manufactured a sense of self that is in fact incapable of preventing love's revelation, no matter the assumptive arguments. If you want something from the place then it will come unto you but be careful what you wish for.

A connecting principle
Linked to the invisible
Almost imperceptible
Something inexpressible
Science insusceptible
Logic so inflexible
Causally connectable
Yet nothing is invincible

If we share this nightmare
Then we can dream
Spiritus mundi

If you act as you think
The missing link
Synchronicity

That reads like Sesame St

holla back jung'n

Why the Police lyrics idgi

Ask the butterfly that just died in Scotland.

*stares into the distance*

well the comedown here is easy/like the arrival of a new day

this man is a poet, and not in the Reader's Digest sense. He is talking to the Soul, which is presently down in the workshop, coated in sawdust and the sweat of lacquer

if way quieter some of the best hypno-grooves since the most recent wooden shjips

the intro of "burning" REALLY has a lot of "young turks" in it.

if nothing else this has to be the greatest driving record of the last 10 years.

i only heard slave ambient because of LITD, and i don't see how anyone could prefer the latter over the former.

both are kind of samey, but there is an overall tension and vibrance that drives slave ambient along. LITD seems listless.

gah can you tell i'm not a music critic.

i love how burning is all rod stewart, bruce springsteen, dire straights, and tom petty-ish within the first minute.

it's really weird that this band has engaged me so much, i feel like it's on some pressure point of my aesthetics, like i somehow have to wrestle out some kind of justifiable opinion about it. relistening to LITD track by track now, i need to recalibrate from comments above. anyway, under the pressure and red eyes are def not listless...

Hunt3r I am right on the same page with you - both your first comment and the last one too. Definitely find Slave Ambient to be superior but feel some kind of urge to break LITD to its elements--find the trees in the forest.

"eyes to the wind" sounds a lot like a latter-day jayhawks jam, one of the ones not sung by gary louris, like say "bottomless cup"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGs9BQzJvds

agreed with you guys xp i'm listening to this a lot more than i planned in the name of figuring it out

it's hard to figure it all out

life just keeps movin on

Hearing "Red Eyes" a lot on WXRT locally, which means it's only a matter of time before WoD is as big as DMB.

I didn't care at all about this band when they were new but yesterday a dude who was into them back then told me to really give the new one a chance and wow. Like this record a lot, and I generally don't listen to, you know, indie rock

yeah this is my favorite record in quite a while