The War on Drugs have announced their full-length follow-up to 2014’s Lost in the Dream. A Deeper Understanding is out August 25 via Atlantic. The project is mixed by Shawn Everett (a mixing engineer known for his work with Alabama Shakes, Weezer, and Julian Casablancas) and features Hand Habits’ Meg Duffy on guitar. Earlier this year, the band returned with a new 11-minute single called “Thinking of a Place”—a song they released as a 12" single on Record Store Day. That track also appears on the album.
Looking forward to this one – thinking of a place is a great preview of the album
ahh this needs to leak
oh yes , sooo into this band wish they reunite with kurt vile , but all TWOD albums are really great good, if you not checked out the back catalog do so RIGHT NOW , keep ya going till this beauty releases , was good to see them get commercial success following the last album , and they so good live :)
This is going to be a big deal.
ugh i want this so baddddly
x2
x3
i would rather have this leak in perfect quality the day of release than have a crappy version floating around giving me blue balls like the queens of the stone age album
rly? i’d rather have this in any semi-listenable version at this point. this rollout has been unbearable.
but i guess the joke’s on me, because here i am hotly anticipating it and scouring the internet for any information about it/new content related to it.
Some people got whole album through iTunes already, so if there’s a leak, it’ll be in good quality. But somehow there’s no leak yet…
“Some people got whole album through iTunes already”
source pls.
yeah, what???
Look in comments under their latest Facebook’s posts. Few people bragged that they got the album. Other people wrote to them and they have album too.
damnit lol
someone pleaseeee
how do we know that others have the album beyond those few itunes mishaps?
goddamn i think press streams are out now
pleaseeee godd
I’m hitting F5 waiting for this bad boy. I pre-ordered it but I need that instant gratification.
me too re. the F5 comment.
i’ve also preordered, too haha
where
is
this
ahhhh
metacritic has some reviews up, so the good news is that the final product is in someone’s hands…
Reviewers and random people got this thing for at least 3 weeks now. But nobody’s leaking it, this is crazy.
i can’t deal … i’m losing my mind cuz i’m fiending so hard
At this point I’m convinced this is all a hoax and the album doesn’t exist.
yea :(
Is anyone here bakedbeans?
Virtually half the album is streaming, so cheer up
https://www.instagram.com/p/BYD1saygBOw/
ahhh
https://www.instagram.com/p/BYERNQVlzdR/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BYEMwV7hYUu/
ahhhhh
where is the leak?! :(
That’s a the million dollar question. This album seems to be on lock-down.
the early sale of vinyl is pretty genius actually because (i) the download codes, i’m assuming, aren’t live yet, so (ii) the only way a digital copy would start circulating would be if someone took the time/effort to rip an LP, which it appears noone is doing at the moment
Or if someone ripped it from a CD promo copy, which is what I assume happens most of the time.
yea. correct.
there must(!) be CDs in circulation, but i haven’t been seeing any evidence of them online anywhere.
*crickets chirping*
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Loving the singles of it so far deep music that makes you close your eyes and let your mind be free , always have been massive massive since when kurt vile used o be in the group , this is going to an epic record , RECORD OF THE YEAR ?
BTW BEST LISTEBED TO ON GOOD QUALITY HEADPHONES SLOW WWALKUNG DOWN A BUSY HIGH STREETV
It’s almost impossible that this album didn’t leaked yet.
It looks like it’s available to stream entirely from their website.
The whole thing is available to stream on their website for 24 hours.
http://www.thewarondrugs.net/firstlisten/
Somebody has to get a perfect version from this stream, right? Get on it leakers, sounds amazing.
yea, plz someone rip the stream!
Its on their website for 24 hours as a first listen before friday
http://thewarondrugs.net/firstlisten/
Band’s website has been offline for at least two hours LOL
It’s already up. We need few more people to report stream though, because 6 is not enough.
LOL
Quality in stream is only 128 Kbs. Easy to download but i prefer to wait two more days and listening in higher quality…
hopefully even a 24 bit version
Listen up record companies – Stream your album in advance! People really don’t care as much for the download leak when it’s already out there.
i’ve said this before but there needs to be some kind of standard as to what constitutes a leak… a stream rip in my mind doesn’t qualify…
it would appear that a proper 320 rip has surfaced…
320 is on waffles as of last night