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On their debut, a life-affirming Wagonwheel Blues, and a follow-up EP, Future Weather, The War on Drugs seemed spooky with manifold ideas, with building uncompromised stone monuments from pieces that competence have seemed like peculiar pairs. Electronic and instrumental reprises convey songs they've nonetheless to play, and Dr. Seuss becomes musical proclivity for confidant unconventional visions. Granduciel has finished it again, improved than before: Slave Ambient, their correct second album, is a shining 47 notation stretch of stone n roll, conceptualized with a clarity of journey and prisoner with seasons of bravado.You competence also like...
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #63985 in Music
- Released on: 2011-08-16
- Number of discs: 2
- Dimensions: .95 pounds
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War on Drugs - The conflict is won
By Red on Black
There is a observant "that a savage with dual heads is a monster". In a box of a scintillating Philadelphia stone outfit a "War on Drugs" (WOD) a dual heads in questions are Kurt Vile and Adam Granduciel who have dynamic to plough apart furrows though keep a unequivocally parsimonious low-pitched bond (Vile plays on a integrate of marks here) . Many of we will have already remarkable that Vile has recently constructed a unequivocally excellent record in a form of "Smoke rings for my halo" sardine packaged with that form of resounding classical stone that done fortunes for Tom Petty, Bob Seger and John Fogerty. Thankfully Adam Granduciel has motionless not to lay around twiddling his thumbs and set himself a charge of relating his low-pitched ring partner. On a justification of this new manuscript "Slave Ambient" he has cumulative a unequivocally vast points feat in terms of twelve low-pitched rounds nonetheless not a finish hit out. This manuscript takes a series of songs from a progressing Future Weather EP and reworks them though some-more importantly Granduciel follows Vile in cherry picking from American classical stone birthright not slightest Springteen, Dylan, Jerry Garcia, Gene Clark and Lou Reed though manages also to trip in a lurch of My Bloody Valentine here, a tiny assisting of a Cure and Echo and a Bunnymen there and tip it all with a curtsy to Arcade Fire. In reduction clever hands it could be a right aged mess, though Adam Granduciel is no small correspondent and as a shining songwriter with intelligent tunes to gangling he strategically thatch down a whole pack and kaboodle with "Slave Ambient" being one of a many beguiling releases of 2011.
Interestingly "Slave Ambient" is also one of those annals that only hits we from a initial listen and it creates finish sense. Take for instance a overwhelming opener "Best Night" full of outrageous issuing guitar lines and a propulsive expostulate that creates we wish to listen to it over and over as Granduciel intones that "I trust that I've been cursed, been drowned and reimbursed," His voice owes a vast debt to Dylan and on a albums closer a poetic agreeable acoustic "Black Water Falls" we feel that a sprit of his Bobness contingency have been pumped into a studio. Second lane "Brothers" is a reworked chronicle of a one found on Future Weather EP and completes a glorious double whammy during a start of this manuscript by relating "Best Night" in a strain that powers along with an roughly Lou Reed proud character outspoken and again a best symphonic lines this side of Wishbone Ash. These highlights are matched during several points in a record not slightest a with a thumping pushing stone of a superb "Your adore is job my name" a 6 notation stone pushing anthem in a creation and justification that a War on Drugs are done for a American turnpike with a turn volume compulsory for a a strain to be listened in during slightest 5 beside states. Some reviewers have suggested it to be a healthy successor to Springsteen's "Dancing in a Dark" nonetheless a jurys still out on that claim. It is a strain of Tom Petty otherwise that infuses a midst indicate strain "Come to a city" nonetheless it is puzzled that Petty ever constructed anything utterly this sonically whacked out, generally a savage of a guitar backdrop that emerges in a third minute. The prominence of Future Weather EP was "Baby Missiles" and a reworked chronicle is even better. It is a form of strain that a Arcade Fire have monopolised over a final few years with a rather vast riff, a Win Butler(ish) "shouty" outspoken and a torpedo (if rather brief) harmonica solo. The violence instrumental that follows it "Original slave" does seem to have some smoothness with Baby Missiles and as with a progressing instrumental "The Animator" both act as nominal interludes or extensions to a categorical songs. Finally a discuss contingency go to a stone strut of "Its my destiny" that has adequate audacity to start a bar fight, truly there is something special going on here.
War on Drugs "Slave Ambient" along with Kurt Vile's solo work shows that a violence heart of classical American Rock strain is unequivocally most alive and full of vitality. In a brief duration of time this record with a swirling guitar lines, challenging synth behind drops and hammering conflict sounds like one of a categorical contenders for 2011 accolades, though some-more than that a one your going to need to find out with undue haste. You unequivocally do need this album.
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One of a year's best
By blackrhombus27
The many low-pitched influences are laid unclothed for all to see nonetheless this manuscript comes out feeling iconic and refreshing. It has evident lift and accessibility while carrying a abyss that warrants large listens. The implausible blending creates a big, open sound that creates a manuscript good played by large speakers and headphones alike. Read a post next for a good, some-more in-depth review; we only came on here to give this manuscript 5 stars in a hopes that others will give Slave Ambient a listen- it'll be value it.
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Spellbinding
By txlonghorns
I don't always write reviews for albums.... though when we do it's since it's one of a best albums I've ever heard. we have listened to Slave Ambient all a approach by during slightest 20 times, and it doesn't grow old. You won't bewail picking adult this undying work of art.
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