Our pick of the albums reviewed on these pages during the past week is the brand new one from The War On Drugs, I Don’t Live Here Anymore.
“Maybe the idea of ‘old-fashioned’ needs a bit of a rebrand.”
“Both phrase and state of mind were hijacked by politicians and grifting cultural commentators over the last decade, manipulating its truth into an image of a regressive state that denies progress and inclusivity. Yet in the real word it’s still a place where good things come from.”
“There were many supposedly passe aspects to the The War On Drugs’ gradual ascent: rather than find a million Tik-Tok users overnight and signing a deal without even writing a song, their Philadelphian leader Adam Granduciel has spent the last fifteen years writing and playing his near timeless music to gradually building audiences of those open minded enough to listen.”
“In an age of immediacy, this slowest of slow burns has resulted in the unlikely scenario of I Don’t Live Here Anymore being one of the most anticipated releases of the year.”
