Stereogum: The Ten Best War On Drugs Songs

"The reason their music stood out earlier on, the reason the more recent albums feel so warmly familiar and intoxicatingly enigmatic at the same time, is because of the skewed, alternate reality take Granduciel builds via some maddened blend of old-school songwriting discipline and studio-scientist atmospherics. The best Drugs songs, the ones that don’t so much quote or reinterpret the canon as exhume and warp it, are the results of Granduciel’s fixation on minute details and textures in service of a grand, final product."

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