A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING | THE WAR ON DRUGS

Update: 6.20.23 I moved this album to the Top 1000

9.18.17 This is one album that I might have to eventually find parking for on the main 1000 list. Other than Radiohead’s A Moon Shaped Pool this might be one of the better albums in the last few years. A remarkable achievement that has beautiful echoes of a Daniel Lanois album. Since Adam Granduciel voice sounds a lot like Lanois's I am surprised not to have found mention of this in other reviews.  Depicting sounds of the 80s doesn’t always come off with the level of understanding this record has. I am wondering, other than 80s Sprintsteen and Lanois, what else am I hearing…..maybe something like Blue Nile or Dire Straits....I don't know. What does it matter A Deeper Understanding is pure great song crafting.

Jordan Sargent at Spin writes: “They should be gigantic,” major label kingmaker Jimmy Iovine once famously said about The War on Drugs, a band that is actually a single 38-year-old man interpreting the classic rock canon through a lens of blurred moroseness. . . .