The War On Drugs A Deeper Understanding 2LP

War On Drugs

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SKU:

ATLLP66062

UPC:

075678660627

Description

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2018 Grammy Award Winner!
Best Rock Album: A Deeper Understanding

Double LP!
Featuring "Holding On" & "Pain"!

For much of the three and a half year period since the release of Lost In The Dream, The War On Drugs' frontman, Adam Granduciel, led the charge for his Philadelphia-based sextet as he holed up in studios in New York and Los Angeles to write, record, edit, and tinker -- but, above all, to busy himself in work. Teaming up with engineer Shawn Everett (Alabama Shakes, Weezer), Granduciel challenged the notion of what it means to create a fully realized piece of music in today's modern landscape. Calling on his bandmates -- bassist Dave Hartley, keyboarding Robbie Bennett, drummer Charlie Hall and multi-instrumentalists Anthony LaMarca and Jon Natchez -- continuously throughout the process, the result is a "band record" in the noblest sense, featuring collaboration, coordination, and confidence at every turn. Through those years of relocation, the revisiting and reexamining of endless hours of recordings, unbridled exploration and exuberance, Granduciel's gritty love of his craft succeeded in pushing the band to great heights.

"While 'Thinking of a Place' our first taste from the band's upcoming album, A Deeper Understandingspent its 11-plus minutes patiently building toward a zen denouement, 'Holding On' is decidedly action-packed. Buoyed by Meg Duffy's winding slide guitar and a bouncing synth line, it shifts from hook to hookdazzling with its intricacy or washing over you with its smoothness, depending on how closely youre listening. It ends with a glimmering descending melody and pitch-shifted vocal motif, maybe the first moment in a War on Drugs song that could be described as 'whimsical.' It still sounds like the past, but it feels like moving on." - Sam Sodomsky, Pitchfork

Features:
Double LP
Gatefold jacket
Limited time album download

Selections:
Side One:
1. Up All Night
2. Pain
3. Holding On
Side Two:
1. Strangest Thing
2. Knocked Down
3. Nothing To Find
Side Three:
1. Thinking Of A Place
2. In Chains
Side Four:
1. Clean Living
2. You Don't Have To Go