Slave Ambient, by The War On Drugs

Slave Ambient

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1.	Best Night 05:30	buy track
2.	Brothers 04:29	buy track
3.	I Was There 03:49	buy track
4.	Your Love Is Calling My Name 06:01	buy track
5.	The Animator 02:16	buy track
6.	Come To The City 04:31	buy track
7.	Come For It 00:28	buy track
8.	It's Your Destiny 04:49	buy track
9.	City Reprise #12 03:05	buy track
10.	Baby Missiles 03:33	buy track
11.	Original Slave 03:11	buy track
12.	Black Water Falls 05:10	buy track

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Philadelphia’s The War on Drugs, the vehicle of Adam Granduciel — frontman, rambler, shaman, pied piper guitarist and apparent arranger-extraordinaire, returns with 'Slave Ambient'.

On their debut, the life-affirming 'Wagonwheel Blues', and the follow-up EP, 'Future Weather', The War on Drugs seemed obsessed with disparate ideas, with building uncompromised rock monuments from pieces that may have seemed like odd pairs. Folk-rock marathons come damaged by drum machines. Electronic and instrumental reprises precede songs they’ve yet to play, and Dr. Seuss becomes lyrical motivation for bold futuristic visions. Now, Granduciel has done it again, better than before: 'Slave Ambient', their proper second album, is a brilliant 47-minute sprawl of rock ’n’ roll, conceptualized with a sense of adventure and captured with seasons of bravado.

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released August 16, 2011

Slave Ambient features a team of Philadelphia's finest musicians, including multi-instrumentalists Dave Hartley and Robbie Bennett, and drummer Mike Zanghi. Recorded throughout the last four years at Granduciel's home studio in Philly, Jeff Ziegler's Uniform Recording and Echo Mountain in Asheville, NC.

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The War On Drugs Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

In the past, Adam Granduciel built the core of The War on Drugs songs largely by himself. ‘Lost in the Dream’, thought, was played and recorded by the group that had solidified so much on the road: Dave Hartley, (his favorite bassist in the world), and pianist Robbie Bennett, a multi-instrumentalist who contributed to ‘Slave Ambient’. ... more

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