The War On Drugs - Slave Ambient (Black Vinyl) Alternative Music Filled with heady atmospherics and

Filled with heady atmospherics and vulnerability that abounds through the shapeshifting sonic palette

even in the height of the DIY blog era

with passages from the book as a springboard for the initial jams

Cass McCombs) at Flying Cloud Recordings in the Catskill Mountains

and looking back has a sudden

The War On Drugs - Slave Ambient (Black Vinyl) Alternative Music Filled with heady atmospherics andThe War On Drugs conjure an ambling drone that conceals real pop hooks and allows classic rock colours to seep through. Main man Adam Granduciel gets plenty of Dylan comparisons, but Slave Ambient feels like a more back alley Byrds filtered through a gauzier Spacemen 3 lens. The chugging "Your Love Is Calling My Name" drives that road for six blissful minutes, but their best song, "Baby Missiles" in a different version here than on 2010's Future