Public Radio For Eastern North Carolina 89.3 WTEB New Bern 88.5 WZNB New Bern 91.5 WBJD Atlantic Beach 90.3 WKNS Kinston 88.5 WHYC Swan Quarter 89.9 W210CF Greenville
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations
US

KEXP Presents: The War On Drugs

His band's new album is called Lost in the Dream, but The War on Drugs' Adam Granduciel sounds like he's just woken up from one. While it's only the band's third record since forming nine years ago, Lost in the Dream is leaps and bounds ahead of its predecessors: Granduciel transforms his ambient, oft-meandering Americana into grander and more propulsive arrangements that are no less exploratory. Like private songs writ large, they reach their full intensity in the hands of his entire band.

Even in the small in-studio space at KEXP, The War on Drugs sounds epic as its members channel their heroes of the '80s — Bruce Springsteen, The Waterboys, Dire Straits — and nearly tear the heart right out of our Midday Show host, Cheryl Waters.

Watch the entire session on KEXP's YouTube channel.

Copyright 2014 KEXP

US