Slave Ambient
Label : Secretly Canadian
Catalogue No: SC190LP
["Best Night\nBrothers\nI Was There\nYour Love Is Calling My Name\nThe Animator\nCome To The City\nCome For It\nIt's Your Destiny\nCity Reprise #12\nBaby Missiles\nOriginal Slave\nBlack Water Falls"]
Media Condition : Mint (M)
Sleeve Condition : Mint (M)
The War On Drugs conjure an ambling drone that conceals real pop-hooks and allows classic-rock colours to seep through. Main man Adam Granduciel gets plenty of Dylan comparisons, but Slave Ambient feels like a more back-alley Byrds filtered through a gauzier Spacemen 3 lens.
The chugging "Your Love Is Calling My Name" drives that road for six blissful minutes, but their best song, "Baby Missiles" - in a different version here than on 2010's Future Weather EP - overlays a synth aura, like '80s-era Springsteen, with a splash of Kurt Vile. It's vexing in exactly the right way.