But now it was time for a new statement for a new decade. In the 2010s, they had put out three classic studio albums in a row. And then there was the extended brotherhood of The War On Drugs, who had just spent many months on the road gelling into an excellent live act, as documented on 2020’s Live Drugs. He was on the verge of starting a family. Looking ahead, he was staring down his 40th birthday. In practical terms, Granduciel was facing a familiar quandary as work began on the new War On Drugs album, I Don’t Live Here Anymore, in early 2018: What next? And yet the quest for that ineffable something continues. They are now firmly embedded in the classic rock lineage.

The New Yorker called them “the best American ‘rock’ band of this decade.” Even The Rolling Stones recognized Granduciel’s talents, inviting him to remix their long lost collaboration with Jimmy Page, “Scarlet,” which was previously an unreleased gem from Goats Head Soup.īy any metric, The War On Drugs have made it. In the aftermath of A Deeper Understanding, they won a Grammy for Best Rock Album. Along the way, they’ve grown with each record. On The War On Drugs’ 2017 album A Deeper Understanding, Adam Granduciel sang about wanting to “find what can’t be found.” In a way, the history of this band has been a chronicle of their frontman’s ongoing search for greater meaning.

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