| War On Drugs, The / Lost In The Dream |
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| Album: | Lost In The Dream | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | War On Drugs, The | Added: | Mar 2014 | |
| Label: | Secretly Canadian | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2014-03-14 | Pull Date: | 2014-05-16 |
| Week Ending: | May 18 | May 11 | May 4 | Apr 27 | Apr 20 | Apr 13 | Apr 6 | Mar 30 |
| Airplays: | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Sep 30, 2022: | KZSU Time Traveler Under The Pressure | 4. | Jul 04, 2021: | KZSU Time Traveler (rebroadcast from Mar 1, 2019) Suffering | |
| 2. | Apr 22, 2022: | KZSU Time Traveler Lost In The Dream | 5. | Aug 01, 2020: | Hanging in the bone yard Red Eyes | |
| 3. | Jul 23, 2021: | KZSU Time Traveler Burning | 6. | Jul 10, 2020: | KZSU Time Traveler In Reverse |
| Album Review |
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| DJ Away Reviewed 2014-03-07 | ||
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This third album from Adam Granduciel & co makes an astronomical leap forward in sonic scope and emotional intensity from 2011’s Slave Ambient. It seems Granduciel decided to take a page from his former bandmate Kurt Vile and give his music room to stretch; half of these songs top the six-minute mark. Really, this album feels like the emotionally beleaguered but resolute twin sister of Vile’s Waking on a Pretty Daze. Pulsing, Technicolor American road music for the wide-eyed sad-sack. Drop-dead amazing from start to finish. Please don’t ask me for favorites. FCC WARNING: 8 (supposedly). 1. (8:52)—Mid-tempo. Rocking, big, a psychedelic take on the best 80s pop. Last three minutes are Minimum Entropy drone wash. 2. (4:59)—Fast, propulsive. Mellow verses that launch with well-placed “Woo!”s into psych-Springsteen. 3. (6:03)—Slow, twangy, alluring, extremely relaxing. 4. (7:12)—Fast, major-key, toward post-punk. Brings the chorus in late, builds so gradually that its sonic power near the end is almost sinister. Ends suddenly. 5. (6:52)—Mid-tempo, especially hazy. 80s drum sounds, oodles of red-hot guitars slicing through butter. 6. (5:56)—Mid-tempo. Strummed guitar, piano, pedal steel, and saxophone in a big bowl of triumphant twangy reverb soup. Awwww yeah. 7. (3:08)—Instrumental. Drooooooone. Preeeetty. Fades into 8. 8. (5:48)—FCC WARNING (can’t hear anything, but the label says FCC, so okay). Throbbing synth bass intro. More psych-Springsteen rock ‘n’ roll. Epic. 9. (4:10)—Medium-slow. The most country-tinged tune here. The lead guitars glisten. This is so beautiful. 10. (7:41)—Medium-slow, very spacey. Long ambient intro. Drums enter halfway through. Absurdly heartbreaking and huge. Yes! | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Under The Pressure | 6. | Eyes To The Wind | |||
| 2. | Red Eyes | 7. | The Haunting Idle | |||
| 3. | Suffering | 8. | Burning | |||
| 4. | An Ocean In Between The Waves | 9. | Lost In The Dream | |||
| 5. | Disappearing | 10. | In Reverse |