The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding (August 25, 2017) Album • Page 12

I think every show I went to last year barring the festival I attended was "dad rock"...Isbell twice, TWoD, Wilco, some would say My Morning Jacket is...

Oh jk I saw Thursday and Japandroids too. Still majority dad rock though

 

Super bummed at myself for missing these guys when they came through in December. I just chose not to go that day. Oh well. Last time they were in town I didn't know I loved them yet.

Didn't really get into A Deeper Understanding when it came out for some reason, but its reeeeeally clicking now this month for me.

 

The intro to Pain sounds just like Seas by Prawn.

 

I need a live album.
They're just incredible live and I would love to own something with that performance.

Just off the top of my head, the ACL version of Eyes to the Wind blows my mind, and the version they play now with Adam intro-ing on the harp is astounding too. P4k has some killers videos of Burning and Red Eyes too.

 

This album is quickly becoming one of my favorites period. I was on a road trip with some friends and decided to bust out “Strangest Thing” and the whole car was floored. Made me realize I’m always so giddy when I introduce this album (and that song in particular) to others which is the chief mark of some of my very favorite music. Anyway, it’s always nice when one person geeks out about the song you just introduced them to, but for four other people (with varying musical tastes) to all geek out when I played it was so special.

Also, I JUST mentioned to my buddy how “Strangest Thing” reminded me of “Holocene” so funny that Bon Iver was mentioned. It’s not a stylistic thing, it just gives me that same otherworldly joy because of how purely beautiful and epic the music is.

 

This continues to be the best record I've heard in a long long time

 

they're up there with tame impala and FJM for my favorite band of the decade

 

Yeah I heard Pain earlier today and thought about how bad I need to revisit this

 

This continues to be true

 

I saw them last night in Cleveland and my God! What a set. They sounded so fucking good and played probably the best set I’ve seen all year (last night was show fifty for me this year). It was almost two hours and five minutes long and it felt like it flew by. I had seen them almost four years ago at the House Of Blues, while it was good this one blew it out of the water. I feel like it may have been because the new album is just that good and they played a theater which held the bands sounds better.

 

Well shit. Definitely didn’t know they were in CLE last night or I definitely would have been there. :/

 

Oh no! :(. They announced the show over six months ago! I’m sorry you missed it.

 

Since they don't have a band thread, I'll drop this here –

Hard to believe Lost In the Dream is (already) 5 years old today. What a fantastic album!

 

Giving this a spin now, just a lovely record

 

adam played some new mixes on IG live. stuff sounded awesome. some songs were a lot more synth-forward and others had some super distorted guitar lines kinda unlike anything we've heard from them. said the record was 75-80% done.

 

Looking forward to it.

Their last record got a lot of spins from me and it’s easily my favourite from them at this point.

 

Can’t wait. A Deeper Understanding is probably one of my favorite records of all time at this point

 

both of the last two are pretty high for me

 

Guys we just heard three new demos. Damn.

I am ecstatic, literally had a stupid grin on my face for the whole stream. TWOD is definitely my favourite band working.

 

Super stoked to be listening to some new War on Drugs songs/demos. It's spring time and for me that means its Lost in a Dream season. I still kick myself for not seeing them the twice they've came close to me and I just didn't go.

 

Just jumping in to say I finally heard LitD, and became obsessed with it 2 months ago. Can’t wait to give this a whirl as well. Some absolutely fantastic songwriting on LitD.

 

Here for it

 

Don’t allow this to happen a third time, they are a proper live band! I saw them 2 years ago and it will remain in my top three live shows indefinitely

 

Yeah I saw them a week before Christmas 2017 and it was a very very good show

 

That was the 2nd time. It was a "AWoD holiday soiree" I believe. I looked at the setlist just now. Dammit.