Okay, can we please just stop qualifying things as “druggy” for a little while? I mean, I’m feeling a little over-saturated here. Seems like anything the least bit unfocused or zoned-out qualifies these days. If Bob Dylan was zoned-out and Pavement was pretty unfocused, then my last shave was druggy as fuck. Heck, my damn ride to work this morning was pretty druggy, if you ask me.
So yeah, I’m done with it for a little while, I think. Even if the name of your band is The War on Drugs, I’ll be damned if i’m going to call you a druggy band. Something else will have to do. Even if your debut record was emphatically tagged as “drug-rock” by a transcendent (TMT Review), I ain’t falling for it this time. Even if your new mini LP, entitled Future Weather (dropping October 26 in the US via Secretly Canadian and TBD in the UK), is all about the “blurred edges” and “overexposed limitations” of analog tape and the “fucked-up” washes and drones and tones and textures of “the abyss,” I’m not gonna go there. I’ll call it spacey or experimental or expansive or something. Heck, I’ll even go so far as to call it “pop music.” I’ll call it that all day long, damnit. And you’ll sit there and like it. Hippies.
Check out the track “Comin’ Through” at the Chocolate Grinder.
Now let’s get to the tracklisting and the tourdates, already. I’m freakin’ tweaked.
Future Weather tracklist:
01. Come to the City
02. Baby Missles
03. Comin’ Through
04. A Pile of Tires
05. Comin’ Around
06. Brothers
07. Missles Reprise
08. The History of Plastic
Tourdates:
09.07.10 - Charlottesville, VA - Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar
09.08.10 - Charlotte, VA - The Milestone
09.09.10 - Raleigh, NC - Hopscotch Festival
09.14.10 - Asheville, NC - Grey Eagle
• The War on Drugs: http://www.thewarondrugs.net
• Secretly Canadian: http://www.secretlycanadian.com
