The War On Drugs, Fleet Foxes to headline Green Man 2018

The War On Drugs, and Fleet Foxes are the names at the top of another cracking looking Green Man bill.

The two headliners immediately lead John Grant, Grizzly Bear and Public Service Broadcasting with Green Man all set for the Brecon Beacons in Wales in mid-August.

The announcement brings further evidence of The War On Drugs’ climb up the festival rankings thanks to the success which last year’s A Deeper Understanding album continued.

“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.”