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Posted: 04 Dec 2013 12:31 PM PST
Adam Granduciel writes songs that stretch out over ears, concert halls, long roads, and certainly over time—there's just so much acreage. As guitarist and principal songwriter for the War on Drugs, his 2011 album Slave Ambient came out as a hazy approximation of Americana, like one long, lingering vision of Springsteen album just before a kush coma. "Red Eyes", as the title might imply, reengages into a familiar Bossgaze gear as before.
Fighting against something between heartbreak and keeping the car running, Granduciel sings, "I would keep you here, but I can't," with that same kind of heroic melancholy that Petty and Dylan mastered back in the day. Textures of low woodwinds, synths, acoustic guitars and pianos living in fog between the pistons of the drums and Granduciel's voice. "Red Eyes" is one wide net to capture a memory—both of something you might've heard on the car radio that one time, and the exact feeling that kept you driving. The War on Drugs: "Red Eyes" on SoundCloud.  |
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