Photo Credit: Matthias Hesch
The War On Drugs have announced a new live album, titled LIVE DRUGS. The new record is due out on Nov. 20. The live tracks that make up the album are "culled from over 40 hard drives of recorded live shows spread out across years of touring behind multiple albums." (Quote via press release.) In addition to the new record announcement, the band also released the first single, "Pain (Live)."
The album marks The War On Drugs' first new album since 2017's A Deeper Understanding. According to a press release, "LIVE DRUGS is sequenced to reflect how a typical 70-minute show would flow. It thrives on live set staples immortalized on record for the first time and illustrates how years of live performance nurtures an evolution of the songs."
“As a band leader, I always want to know where a song can go,” said bandleader Adam Granduciel (via press release). “Even though we’ve recorded it, mastered it, put it out, and been touring on it, it doesn’t mean that we just have to do it the same way forever.” And in that way, LIVE DRUGS is a freeing moment for the band. Now finally captured, these live iterations of the songs feel recontextualized, and subsequently less precious. “It feels like it’s kind of a reset, to be able to put something out that’s a really good interpretation of the way we interpret our music live. Even though this recording is from a year of tours, this is really how these six guys evolved as a band from 2014 to 2019.”
To pre-order LIVE DRUGS, click here. Listen to "Pain (Live)" below!
