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The War On Drugs: A Deeper Understanding (Atlantic)

Graeme Thomson, Daily Mail, Summer 2017

ADAM GRANDUCIEL, strategist-in- chief behind Philadelphia's the War On Drugs, works in a field we might call ambient Americana. Imagine the music of Bruce Springsteen, born-again Bob Dylan and Dire Straits administered with a medium-strength sedative, filtered through dreamy indie-rock atmospherics and set to a motoric pulse. Repeat the formula ad nauseum. 

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