The War on Drugs - Slave Ambient

01. Best Night
02. Brothers
03. I Was There
04. Your Love Is Calling My Name
05. The Animator
06. Come To The City
07. Come For It
08. It's Your Destiny
09. City Reprise
10. Baby Missiles
11. Original Slave
12. Blackwater

These Philly rockers conjure an ambling drone that conceals real pop hooks 
and allows classic-rock 
colors to seep through. 
Main man Adam Granduciel gets plenty of Dylan comparisons, but Slave Ambient feels like a more back-alley Byrds filtered through a gauzier Spacemen 3 lens. The chugging "Your Love Is Calling My Name" drives that road for six blissful 
minutes. But their best song, "Baby Missiles" -- in 
a different version here 
than on 2010's Future Weather EP -- overlays a synth aura, like '80s-era Springsteen with a splash of Arcade Fire. It's vexing 
in exactly the right way...www.spin.com