A Deeper Understanding Deluxe Edition 2LP

The War On Drugs announce their fourth full-length album, A Deeper Understanding. A Deeper Understanding is the bands first album since 2014s universally acclaimed Lost In The Dream, and their debut album with Atlantic. Following the Record Store Day release of the 11-minute Thinking of a Place, The War On Drugs present the albums lead single, Holding On. For much of the three and a half year period since the release of Lost In The Dream, The War On Drugs frontman, Adam Granduciel, led the charge for his Philadelphia-based sextet as he holed up in studios in New York and Los Angeles to write, record, edit, and tinkerbut, above all, to busy himself in work. Teaming up with engineer Shawn Everett (Alabama Shakes, Weezer), Granduciel challenged the notion of what it means to create a fully realized piece of music in todays modern landscape. Calling on his bandmates bassist Dave Hartley, keyboarding Robbie Bennett, drummer Charlie Hall and multi-instrumentalists Anthony LaMarca and Jon Natchez — continuously throughout the process, the result is a band record in the noblest sense, featuring collaboration, coordination, and confidence at every turn. Through those years of relocation, the revisiting and reexamining of endless hours of recordings, unbridled exploration and exuberance, Granduciels gritty love of his craft succeeded in pushing the band to great heights.