Lost in the Dream by The War On Drugs

Lost in the Dream, the War on Drugs' third album, arrived on Secretly Canadian on March 18, 2014, after two years of sessions and endless rewrites. Adam Granduciel, the Philadelphia band's only constant since Kurt Vile left, came off the road into a stretch of loneliness and depression, and that isolation runs all through these songs.

The music, though, rolls like a highway at night: long, shimmering, motorik-steady grooves that borrow the heartland drive of Bruce Springsteen, the droning haze of Spacemen 3 and the ragged sprawl of Neil Young & Crazy Horse, all of it steeped in Americana and big, glossy classic-rock sheen. Charlie Hall came aboard as full-time drummer during the recording. "Red Eyes" and "Under the Pressure" were among the five radio singles. It debuted at number 26 on the Billboard 200, drew universal acclaim, topped a stack of year-end lists and won the Libera Award for Record of the Year.

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