Philadelphia\u2019s The War on Drugs reside at the blurred edges of American music: overexposing studio limitations, piling tape upon tape to maximum density, and then \u2014 with each song \u2014 they pull off the scaffolding to reveal what sticks, keeping only what\u2019s absolutely necessary and dig into what sounds like the best kind of fucked up. As on their 2008 debut, Wagonwheel Blues, central member Adam Granduciel takes small moments occurring over multiple tapes and multiple song versions, and puts every last drop of trust in his own keen instinct of momentum.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s not to overshadow the sharp, personal songwriting at play here. There are certainly cues taken from our very best American bards (Dylan, Petty, Springsteen). Yet, The War on Drugs are wise enough to also implode those cues or send themselves into outer space when the moment calls for it. The driving organ riff that pushes \u201cBaby Missiles,\u201d from the band\u2019s 2010 epic EP Future Weather, may well be inspired by a fever dream of Springsteen rather than any particular song in his catalogue. And the endless layers of guitar melody and atmospherics of \u201cComin\u2019 Through,\u201d also from Future Weather, rather than add weight to the vessel, only work to fill its sails with warmer and warmer winds.<\/p>\n
The same essence you can find in the latest album Lost In The Dream; 10 songs produced by Granduciel and Jeff Zeigler.
\nThis album is one of the biggest triumphs of Granduciel. The Album was one of the best albums of last year in many foreign music magazines around the world.<\/p>\n
They will have their premier in the Czech Republic, Lucerna Music Bar Prague, on the 17th<\/sup> of August.<\/p>\n Tickets are available from the 17th<\/sup> of April.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Philadelphia\u2019s The War on Drugs reside at the blurred edges of American music: overexposing studio limitations, piling tape upon tape to maximum density, and then \u2014 with each song \u2014 they pull off the scaffolding to reveal what sticks, keeping only what\u2019s absolutely necessary and dig into what sounds like the best kind of fucked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[405],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-program"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicbar.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicbar.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicbar.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicbar.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicbar.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/musicbar.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16099,"href":"https:\/\/musicbar.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15591\/revisions\/16099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicbar.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicbar.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicbar.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}