
On one hand, everything you need to know about War Tapes is right here in "Dreaming of You," the first song to put the quartet on the Los Angeles landscape. Over urgent beats and ringing guitars, singer Neil Popkin gives it his best Depeche Mode-meets-She Wants Revenge, making his girl reverie sound as foreboding as a car ride to the oral surgeon's. Oh, the dread. Oh, the melodrama. "I'll just sleep my life away," he concludes, a note of resignation creeping into his stentorian tones. ||| Download: "Dreaming of You" [...]