Lost In The Dream
by The War On Drugs

From Mercury TOP 100 COMMENTER 04/22/2014 00:50 | #109718 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

And just like that my whole world was shaken by one album. One album that completely and totally transfixed every part of me from the physical, to the mental, and the spiritual. This album literally expressed in 1 hour how I feel and all my emotions and thoughts. The music... Well, lets just say it encapsulates every aspect of what I have been wanting in music for a long time. It has the ambience of all the ambient music I've been into the last year, it has the space and dynamic and contemplative grace of Talk Talk, it has the voice and emotional delivery of 80s era Dylan or Kaputt era Destroyer, also it has the great pop rhythms of Kaputt or mid 80s Kate Bush albums, it has the wise and simple poetic touch that I love finding in music from time to time. This album is the closest thing I can imagine to what the soundtrack of my existence is. It's hopeful, lonely, never gives up, it feels completely immersed in internal emotional struggles, yet it manages to stay composed enough to push along with a knowingness or, at least, a hope that it will all be okay in the end.

This may be my most rambly album note ever. But this is what I wrote as is no edits. I'm in love. This album is life to me. It's exactly what I needed. It has helped me more than you can imagine.

Now everyone please go listen to this album if you haven't already!

From zdwyatt TOP 100 COMMENTER 01/09/2015 19:57 | #131162 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

Ever wondered what it would sound like if Springsteen was in My Bloody Valentine? Well, this is it! I hear so many influences on this record: Dylan, Petty, Knopfler, Gabriel, as well as MBV and the Boss. But it isn't derivative; it's blue collar rock with an indie update. I realize that probably sounds dreadful, but I assure you it's praise.

In a parallel universe, in the summer of 1985, years before George Harrison and Geoff Lynne could start the Travelling Wilburys, Bod Dylan and Tom Petty formed a group with Mark Knopfler, Don Henley and Bruce Hornsby called The Babbling Wardruggies. Almost 30 years later, Adam Granduciel, born with a gift to hear echoes of that parallel dimension in his dreams, recorded what he was hearing when lost in his dream. Still not fully sure of what I think of this album. I like it but struggle with it being derivative of the kind of mid 80's AOR I imagine Jeremy Clarkson likes to listen to whilst driving with the roof down. There is however a trippiness brought about with effects and repetition that at times transcends it's influences. As well as the influences I've already mentioned there's strong echoes of something else which I can't quite put my finger on. Having listened to it quite a lot I'm now not sure if it just reminds me of itself or something else. In spite of the things that make me uncomfortable I will continue to give this album playtime, especially in the car. It's just a shame I can't put the roof down ;)

From Socipluco 09/18/2015 21:00 | #150000 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

Well played, well crafted and well produced. For sure this is a great album, as melancholic and dreamy as it is hopeful and heartfelt, this is THE car-journey album, since it is perfect when you're driving your car in the night with some friends who appreciate good music. What keeps me from saying that this is a classic or the album of 2014 is the fact that it isn't very innovative. It could well be an 80s album, such is the feeling of good old synth pop-rock à-la Born-in-the-usa-era Bruce Springsteen, with some looks at the shoegaze movement and it doesn't seem a 2010s album at all, with its retro style. However it is still passionately played and beautiful to listen to.

From Dingerbell 04/30/2014 21:13 | #110462 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

I'm going to admit it: I'm not a fan of Springsteen or Dylan, yet I love this. A wonderful mix of singer-songwriter folk with a dreamy, ambient background that I fell in love with immediately a couple of months ago, and it has been my number one album of the year ever since. Great album.