Lost in the Dream

2.1

It was just aight for me. Red Eyes was the only song that I clicked with, and the rest of it just felt like filler, Bruce Springsteen-esque. Red Eyes really hits the indie rock sound of that era.

I already know and love The War on Drugs so this is an easy 5 for me. This is the perfect music to listen to while driving through the woods

This is just Bruce Springsteen if he was an indie rocker. It's not an insult in the slightest but the drawback is the song lengths. Three 7 minute song, one 9 minute song, three 6 minute songs, and the rest are somehow the normal length of 4 minutes. This album could have easily been like 10-15 minutes shorter by cutting some songs short. But the songs are pretty good so I guess I can't complain too much.

it's a rare day when there's an album with a 1 hour+ runtime and I don't get bored or agitated

Pretty chill album. Moments reminded me of Bruce Springsteen, others of Bob Dylan with better singing and less crappy harmonica. 4/5

I get the point that "it all sounds the same". But that sound is glorious - "Red Eyes" probably one of my favourite tracks from recent years. *checks album release date - it's over 10 years old* Shhhiiiiiiiiiiiiit - me is old.

It's a really nice album to listen to, and there will probably be times and moods where I'll come back to it, but it's so one-dimensional, making it meander along at one pace. For an hour long album, this can become quite tedious

A good album, but suffers from some unnecessarily long tracks

I couldn't get into it at all - I listened to it and it entered my brain and immediately exited without leaving any trace it had ever been there.

As I'm leaving 1/5 scores for things I actively dislike, I guess this gets:

2/5

Too forceful to be indie but too cerebral to be 'guitar rock' (whatever that actually means), The War on Drugs isn't a war at all, more like a unification of various traditions: retrospecting and portending at the same time. Not folk rock either, since they don't neglect soul for a strained profundity or a wistful nothing. Adam Grundeciel sings w/ a contained turbulence in the way of a Bruce Springsteen, while the music balances length w/ essence. Lyrically, there's uplift and pain, like anywhere, but here compellingly and necessarily: 'Don't want another dark time to think to myself / We won't get lost inside it all, you're on my way'; 'I wanna rise on a road / Just let me rise up against the waves.' And wrenchingly beautiful as well.

na momente bro tinks hi bob dilan, na trenutke heri stajls ez it vaz

šalu na stranu, sasvim solidno

It's a bit repetitive perhaps, but it really doesn't bother me on this one. The album is very chill and pleasant to listen to and feels like some crossover between classic rock and modern indie. Under the Pressure and Lost in the Dream are pretty big hits and feel like the stand outs on this album. I like the whole of it though, even if I wouldn't necessarily seek it out myself. I could listen to their meandering playing for hours.

Just another ex-1001 album!™
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I can't quite work out what this wants to be, sounds like some mashup of Springsteen, Arcade Fire and other Americana. Either way, it's all very middle of the road.

Nice sound - I only knew one song from them before

Really cool album. I like it.

One of the most beautiful albums I've ever listened to, pure magic

Felt like it never picked up. Just didn't capture my interest once.

After seeing them live again a couple of months ago, I realized how well these songs have stood the test of time, especially when compared to the rest of their repertoire. There's a bit more depth, energy, and tension in these songs than in everything that came after. Additionally, all of their songs tend to be longer and more stretched out than their earlier work, particularly those featuring Kurt Vile. It's not a five-star album because of the slog in the middle.

Does Springsteen get the royalties? This passes me by in an audio soup of delay, reverb and plodding tempos. I find it dull and samey.