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  • pledgeagrievance
    pledgeagrievance Posts: 2,874
    Ordered the blue vinyl from turntable lab. I can’t wait anymore! Too many great reviews 
  • vant0037
    vant0037 Posts: 6,170
    Adam's not known for his lyrics, and if I'm being honest, some of them are a bit cliche.  But where he really excels is little lines here or there, placed perfectly, just as a song crescendoes.  That's why I quote the part above.  Right there in that song...perfect lyrics.
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  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,598
    Would love to see them on SNL sometime soon
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  • 1STmammal2wearPants
    1STmammal2wearPants Worcester, MA Posts: 2,987
    I absolutely cannot wait to see them in Boston next year. Their past few albums have been unbelievable. Been a bucket list band for a while.....
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  • 1STmammal2wearPants
    1STmammal2wearPants Worcester, MA Posts: 2,987
    The Juggler said:
    Would love to see them on SNL sometime soon
    Would love this. They've gone far indie-r before (i.e. Fleet Foxes).....
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  • Daron Oshay
    Daron Oshay Middletown, NJ Posts: 2,592
    I mean this album is fantastic 
  • vant0037
    vant0037 Posts: 6,170
    https://www.stereogum.com/2167814/the-war-on-drugs-harmonias-dream-live-debut/news/

    Check out the set list.  Forthcoming b-side “Slow Ghost?”

    Gah!  Can’t wait to see what this is about!
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  • vant0037
    vant0037 Posts: 6,170
    Also, this:


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  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,598
    Jimmy Kimmel tonight
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  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,252
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ymUUTvAkkc

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  • vant0037
    vant0037 Posts: 6,170
    So its been a few weeks...

    What is your favorite song on the album?  This will obviously change, as mine does over time.  But the one I find myself cranking the most is "Harmonia's Dream."
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  • BrainOfJHA
    BrainOfJHA KC Posts: 711
    vant0037 said:
    So its been a few weeks...

    What is your favorite song on the album?  This will obviously change, as mine does over time.  But the one I find myself cranking the most is "Harmonia's Dream."
    That one is great. I’m also really liking Occasional Rain
  • mfc2006
    mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,491
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ymUUTvAkkc
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  • 2-feign-reluctance
    2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,462
    The entire record flows. I love the sequencing, big part of what I liked about the last two from them. 
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  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,598
    Favorite parts of this album:
    When the drums and the rest of band kick into Old Skin about half way through.
    Every second of I Don't Live Here Anymore -- damn near perfect song. Possibly their best. 
    The little guitar solo around 4:20 into Harmonia's Dream.

    I think this is honestly one of my favorite albums of the last ten or twenty years. It's so good. I kind of feel bad for MMJ because this album just totally eclipsed their new one to me. Wish there was more than a week between them.
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  • Johnny Abruzzo
    Johnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 12,383
    The Juggler said:
    Favorite parts of this album:
    When the drums and the rest of band kick into Old Skin about half way through.
    Every second of I Don't Live Here Anymore -- damn near perfect song. Possibly their best. 
    The little guitar solo around 4:20 into Harmonia's Dream.

    I think this is honestly one of my favorite albums of the last ten or twenty years. It's so good. I kind of feel bad for MMJ because this album just totally eclipsed their new one to me. Wish there was more than a week between them.
    I think my first instinct was: this album is a step towards mainstreaming, not "selling out" but changing sound towards a more mass-appealing sound.

    Listening to all their stuff all jumbled together today, I think that was wrong. The new album is continued development of an amazing musician hitting his stride and gaining confidence in his singing and songwriting. If the album is lighter on the overdubs and jam-outs (which of course we all love), it's a huge amount of growth on the feels and hooks. Just awesome stuff.
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  • BrainofBGA
    BrainofBGA Australia Posts: 4,558
    I just love this band. And this new record has cemented it. Only started listening to them after the release of A Deeper Understanding. I’m now fully entrenched in the last three records. Haven’t ventured further back than Lost in a Dream as yet. 
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  • Johnny Abruzzo
    Johnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 12,383
    BrainofBGA said:
    I just love this band. And this new record has cemented it. Only started listening to them after the release of A Deeper Understanding. I’m now fully entrenched in the last three records. Haven’t ventured further back than Lost in a Dream as yet. 
    I've become obsessed with Slave Ambient recently.
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  • vant0037
    vant0037 Posts: 6,170
    Best Night is easily one of their most underrated songs…
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  • BrainofBGA
    BrainofBGA Australia Posts: 4,558
    Johnny Abruzzo said:
    BrainofBGA said:
    I just love this band. And this new record has cemented it. Only started listening to them after the release of A Deeper Understanding. I’m now fully entrenched in the last three records. Haven’t ventured further back than Lost in a Dream as yet. 
    I've become obsessed with Slave Ambient recently.
    Looking forward to checking that one out soon. 
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