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
