THE WAR ON DRUGS
Future Weather 12" (SC227, released: 10/28/10)
The War On Drugs is once again at the blurred edges of American music: overexposing studio limitations, piling tape upon tape to maximum density, and then -- with each song -- they pull off the scaffolding to reveal what sticks, keeping only what's absolutely necessary and dig into what sounds like the best kind of fucked up. As on their debut, Wagonwheel Blues, they take small moments occurring over multiple tapes and multiple song versions, and put every last drop of trust in their own instinct of momentum.

Future Weather is a provocative -- sometimes playful, sometimes weighty -- glimpse into The War On Drugs' song-sculpting process, a process that remains a big mystery even to those on the inside. While some bands are content to merely pace the abyss, The War On Drugs coast through it. And along the way, Future Weather sidesteps most every connotation associated with the EP format. There's a true coalescence and symmetry here, one of wash and drone, of momentum and tone, but also of theme. Friendship, loyalty and keeping a group of spiritual brothers together are all themes that songwriter Adam Granduciel focuses in on for Future Weather. "Wondering where my friends are going / Wondering why they didn't take me / Looking out the window of my room / Looking out where something once ran wild," he sings on "Brothers" with a sense of soured peace, leaving out all the right things, leaving room in there for the shared experiences of your own friends. There are cues taken from our best American songwriters, yet The War On Drugs are wise enough to also implode or send themselves into outer space when the moment calls for it. The driving organ riff that pushes "Baby Missiles" may be inspired by a fever dream of Springsteen or Dire Straits more than any particular jam. And the endless layers of guitar melody and atmospherics of "Comin' Through," rather than add weight to the vessel, only work to fill its sails with warmer and warmer winds.

SONG LIST:
Come to the City #14
Baby Missiles
Comin' Through
A Pile of Tires
Comin' Around
Brothers
Missiles Reprise
The History of Plastic

Sounds nice enough for a midtempo. Looking forward to the rest. I wonder how much if any participation K. Vile will have on it.

Also, Yo e-stone!, check this thread out.

i liked the last one.

The War On Drugs’ new EP Future Weather comes out October 26 (early 2011 in the U.K.), but you can pre-order it today and receive an instant download of the record. Check out our latest offering from the record “The History of Plastic.” This album closing deep cut is a gorgeous eight-minute meditative musical exploration.

Alright, enough is enough, I need to hear this damn thing...


(I'm trying to will it to leak, like what happened on Friday with Moondoggies)

see TWENTYTEN thread (p. 100)

any RIYLs?

Philadelphia roots-rock noisemakers the War on Drugs released an EP, Future Weather, last year, but they haven't put out a full-length since 2008's debut Wagonwheel Blues. Erstwhile band member Kurt Vile's been doing fine on his own since, while multi-instrumentalist Dave Hartley put out a record last year for his bliss-pop project Nightlands.


The band's set to kick back in action on August 16, when Secretly Canadian releases Slave Ambient, the second proper LP from the War on Drugs. The record was recorded in Asheville, North Carolina and at frontman Adam Granduciel's home studio in Philly. Above, listen to album track "Baby Missiles", and check out the LP's tracklist below.

Slave Ambient:

01 Best Night
02 Brothers
03 I Was There
04 Your Love Is Calling My Name
05 The Animator
06 Come to the City
07 Come For It
08 It's Your Destiny
09 City Reprise #12
10 Baby Missiles
11 Original Slave

A. Granduciel warondrugsjams A. Granduciel
About 16 minutes away from finishing the new record. the champagne is in the freezer. So many one of a kind tones on this one. Stoked!!!
8 Mar