The War On Drugs by Shawn Brackbill
The War On Drugs released their fifth studio album last week.
The War On Drugs have recorded a Tiny Desk (Home) concert session for NPR – have a watch below.
I Don’t Wanna Wait, Old Skin, Change and the title-track were all performed from I Don’t Live Here Anymore, which Live4ever has awarded 8.5, praising it as a record which proves ’empathy, forgiveness and love still make for just as compelling a subject matter as anything else’:
“Fatherhood has keenly developed the singer’s appreciation of legacy – on Change he reflects on a life ‘running from the white light’ whilst a piano leads softly. ‘Maybe I was born too late’, he broods, a man out of time in an era which defaults only to superficiality, a reticent haze which passes on to the muscular backdrop of I Don’t Wanna Wait.”
“Elsewhere, The War On Drugs have rarely been so alive; Victim scampers along like an even more melodramatic Boys Of Summer; Wasted is a bittersweet, sunsetting apex; closer Occasional Rain is a country-infused slow dance for fast times; Rings Around My Father’s Eyes an exquisite, lighter-ready ballad.”
