Album Review: The War On Drugs - A Deeper Understanding (+ Album Stream)

After the breakout commercial and critical success of 2014's Lost in a Dream and the band’s subsequent signing to a major label, it’s no overstatement to call A Deeper Understanding one of the most anticipated albums of the year. The War On Drugs openly embrace their major label status here – while their trademark yearning vocals, fried guitar solos, Bruce Hornsby pianos and motorik rhythmic motives are still largely in place, the sound is cleaner, brighter and bigger in every sense. This helps open up the songs, yet unavoidably also takes away some of the stoned mystique of earlier albums....

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