The War On Drugs announce one-off UK arena show

 

The War On Drugs will bring their 2017 album A Deeper Understanding back to the UK at the end of this year.

Their only headline UK outing of the year is an impressive one for sure, at the O2 Arena in London on December 13th. It’s a significant achievement for the band after A Deeper Understanding kept the widespread acclaim achieved by its predecessor Lost In The Dream flowing.

“In a sense, A Deeper Understanding is all about relationships – ours with each other, Americans with their own identity, the fractious present with a misrepresented past – so when on Knocked Down the listener hears, ‘far away there is a star/Raining through the night sky like a drop/Give ’em all a piece of the moon for me’, maybe it’s a call for the human race to seek enlightenment elsewhere,” our review reads.

“If such a journey is required, The War On Drugs’ fourth album could be its soundtrack. This is an American band making America great again in the truest sense of the phrase, a vital slogan before its hijacking by fascism, a quest heralded by voices from the country’s grand, ridiculous, nostalgic soul and its sometimes epic, beautiful heart of lightness.”