Blog: The Line Of Best Fit

The War On Drugs. Photograph by Travis Newman The War on Drugs ' debut LP Wagonwheel Blues was released last month to quiet acclaim. This website called it an "incredible debut...accomplished, mature, understated" . Pitchfork rhapsodised about its "enormous first impression...they craft a big sound for their big ideas, so that Wagonwheel Blues fills the space between horizons". From its woozily euphoric opening bars, the record carves out a path that links Springsteen's bittersweet narratives to Eno's textural noodling. Main man Adam Granduciel's voice has been compared, not sacrilegiously, [...]