Lost in the Dream

Good but faded into the background for me

Sounds older than is

Folk/roots rock with synths. It’s not prog rock but the tracks are ambient and run too long, like a late night drive on the highway type of vibe. The lyrics are like the reflection on the way back home (2.5-3).

Snore and Shrugs.

That was uncalled for, it's actually not that bad. Any one of these songs could hold its own if it were on a mid-1980s soundtrack.

The only thing that is noticeably bad about this album is the drumming (or programming). The '80s beats should have been left in the '80s. 30 years later. It's not nostalgic, it's just dumb.

Bob Dylan vocals with very shimmery instrumentals to listen before sleep

Painfully middle of the road. Little wrong with it, but little of any excitement occurring here.

3/5. The 2010’s was the decade where I really began to pay attention to new music releases, but at the time the War on Drugs completely passed me by so this is my first time listening to a record of theirs, and it’s alright. Decent blend of Springsteen-esque Americana and psychedelic indie rock. The vocals are solid and glide over this style of instrumental smoothly. My favorites were probably “under the pressure” and “disappearing.” Dunno that I’ll come back to this one as a full listen but there were at least a good handful of solid tracks.

The War on Drugs is a good natured, meandering, slowly unfurling, vaguely uplifting, updated take on Bruce Springsteen, smudged with plenty of reverb. It's a solid album but I’m not hearing the classic that others treasure, quite possibly because I have less reverence for the reference points at play here. It does however have a great flow, and a real sense of journey across the LP.

Some parts of this feels like they drag on a bit. But not bad. 6/10

While I do not think The War On Drugs is one of the more interesting indie bands from the 2010s, there is something here. Lost In The Dream is clearly supposed to be a kind of immersive, dreamy experience, and it is, sometimes. Lengthy, atmospheric indie songs abound here, and it's possible that I just need to spend more time with this band, but a lot of the time, these songs seem overlong, and I'm not sure the songwriting here can support this album's atmosphere. But every once in a while, Lost In The Dream manages to suck me in for just long enough that I can kind of see what they were going for here. There is something kind of compellingly beautiful and a little sad here. But too often, the full picture feels like a slog. I can see myself revisiting this album, but at the moment, I just don't know if I can go too high here. For everything cool that happens, there's some meandering that I can't really connect with, and the cumulative effect is on again, off again.

The Killers at home:

Very relaxing, great for road trips.

This album almost feels like one of those summer days that never seem to end, where the weather is perfect and the vibes are immaculate. They are few & far between, and all you can really do is just enjoy the hell out of them. The album isn't quite perfect - it fatigues me more than those summar days do - but it is definitely up there.

I'm just not feeling this one. Nothing is great about this album. Might not be coming back to it, but I didn't hate every second. It really didn't do anything wrong, just didn't do anything.

Actually really enjoyed this

Oh, dear. An hour-long indie rock album from 2014 with only 10 tracks sounds like an absolute borefest. Unfortunately, it was. The songs were mostly just background music with mediocre lyrics, and they often ran way too long. This album isn't good or bad, it's just nothing. There's nothing really noteworthy here, and this isn't worth the hour. An inessential album for sure.

Det verste med dette er at jeg også ser ut som noen som digger The War On Drugs

I had never heard of this album or this band but I quite liked it. It was a little bit pretentious just like me, but very easy to listen to. Everybody seemed to think that it was boring, it didn't really bother me.

I really like this 👌🥰

Yeah this was fine, probably need to give it another listen. A bit of Sam fender vibes from it 3