Audio Review: The War On Drugs: A Deeper Understanding


Posted August 15, 2017 in Music Reviews

The War on Drugs

A Deeper Understanding

[Atlantic]

The three and a half year wait for the successor to Lost in the Dream is nearly at an end and I can tell you, emphatically, that it has been worth the wait.

A Deeper Understanding is a true and worthy sequel, filled from beginning to end with rich melodic power and lyrical beauty.

Here is a collection of fully-formed songs that ceaselessly bear the listener forward with their sweep and grandeur.

Four albums in, Adam Grandunciel’s brand of human-oriented rock exists sui generis.

This is nothing short of a masterpiece and a balm for the hurt senses of this fractured age.

Expect to see it at the top of every end of year list.

Words – Conor Stevens

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