“Come To The City” by The War On Drugs

"Come to the City" lives on Slave Ambient, the War on Drugs' second album, released by Secretly Canadian in 2011, and it's a prime slice of what Adam Granduciel was chasing back then: road-dusted rock blurred into a warm, humming haze. Granduciel sings it and wrote the words, sharing the music credit with Dave Hartley, and the credits make him a one-man workshop: harmonica, Minimoog, organ, sampler and tape.

Hartley covers bass and twelve-string guitar and splits drum duty with Michael Johnson and Mike Zanghi, who adds percussion as well. Granduciel produced it with Jeff Zeigler, the pair recording alongside John Ashley. The album took three years to finish, and it was the last to feature Zanghi and founding guitarist Kurt Vile.

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