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The War On Drugs conjure an ambling drone that conceals real pop-hooks and allows classic-rock colours 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 Kurt Vile. It's vexing in exactly the right way.

Tracklisting

  • Best Night
  • Brothers
  • I Was There
  • Your Love Is Calling My Name
  • The Animator
  • Come To The City
  • Come For It
  • It's Your Destiny
  • City Reprise #12
  • Baby Missiles
  • Original Slave
  • Black Water Falls
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Embarrassment - RSD 2024
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Nirvana
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Come Away With ESG
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Chutes Too Narrow
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Thirteen
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Blue Banisters
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Cryosleep
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No Singles
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Harry Pussy
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Liquid Skin
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The Age Of Quarrel
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Is It?
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Death of a Cheerleader
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Surrender
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Screamadelica
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Young Hearts
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Lisbon
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Beneath The Eyrie
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ÁTTA
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The Undertones
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Strawberries
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Call The Comet
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Fever Dreams Pts. 1 - 4
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Nevermind
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Cartwheel
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KOKORO
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Blondshell
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Hellfire
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A-Z
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The Crackdown
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Flash And The Pan
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Competition
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