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A Deeper Understanding by The War On Drugs
A Deeper Understanding is an album by The War On Drugs, released in 2017. 5 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 53 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Pain”, on 18 lists with a best position of #4.
A Deeper Understanding, the War on Drugs' fourth album and their first for Atlantic, arrived on August 25, 2017, and it takes the widescreen haze of Lost in the Dream and builds it out even bigger. The Philadelphia band was a six-piece by now: Adam Granduciel singing, writing and playing guitar and keys, Dave Hartley on bass, Robbie Bennett on keys, Charlie Hall on drums, Anthony LaMarca on guitar and Jon Natchez on saxophone and keys, with Shawn Everett mixing.
The songs roll like night drives, synths shimmering, drums locked into a steady motorik pulse, guitars unspooling into long, yearning solos. "Pain" aches, "Holding On" sprints toward the horizon, and "Thinking of a Place" drifts out long and slow, in no hurry to arrive anywhere. It won the Grammy for Best Rock Album.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from A Deeper Understanding on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pain | 18 | #4 | – | 2017–2026 | |
| 2 | Holding On | 18 | #3 | – | 2017–2026 | |
| 3 | Thinking of a place | 12 | #8 | – | 2017–2026 | |
| 4 | Strangest Thing | 2 | #29 | – | 2017 | |
| 5 | Up All Night | 2 | #753 | – | 2020–2024 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.