“Burning” by The War On Drugs

"Burning" was one of five promotional radio singles pulled from Lost in the Dream, the third War on Drugs album, which Secretly Canadian released in March 2014. It's Adam Granduciel's show nearly top to bottom: he wrote it, produced it and sings it, and the credits give him electric and acoustic guitar, synthesizer, organ, harmonica, percussion and drums, the drums shared with Mike Sneeringer. Dave Hartley plays bass and Robbie Bennett piano, Gabe Wax gets a credit for tape, and Nicolas Vernhes and Jeff Zeigler mixed it.

The album around it took two years of sessions and rewrite after rewrite. It leans on '80s rock and Americana, with Bruce Springsteen, Spacemen 3 and Neil Young & Crazy Horse among its reference points, and critics greeted it with universal acclaim.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.