The War On Drugs – Slave Ambient (2-LP Vinyl)
Product Details
Philadelphia's Adam Granduciel spent years honing this material through relentless touring and tape-saturated home recording sessions, and the patience shows. Slave Ambient landed on numerous year-end lists for 2011 and introduced the band to a much wider audience, bridging the gap between underground rock obsessives and listeners who grew up on Petty, Dylan, and Springsteen without ever feeling like a compromise.
On their debut, the life-affirming Wagonwheel Blues, and the follow-up EP, Future Weather, The War on Drugs seemed obsessed with disparate ideas, with building uncompromised rock monuments from pieces that may have seemed like odd pairs. Electronic and instrumental reprises precede songs they've yet to play, and Dr. Seuss becomes lyrical motivation for bold futuristic visions. Granduciel has done it again, better than before: Slave Ambient, their proper second album, is a brilliant 47 minute sprawl of rock n roll, conceptualized with a sense of adventure and captured with seasons of bravado.
Tracklist
Side A
Side B
Side C
Side D
UPC: 656605019017
Label: Secretly Canadian
Release Date: 8.16.11
Format: LP Vinyl