“The new songs are much bigger and more dynamic,” Granduciel says about the record he produced alongside Shawn Everett. I Don’t Live Here Anymore (Atlantic *** 1/2), released on Friday, is a collection of 10 cascading songs that - starting with a gloriously soaring title track whose video finds the sextet joined by singers Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig of Lucius on a Los Angeles rooftop - announce the band’s return with anthemic grandeur. Now, The War on Drugs are back with an album poised to make arena rock dreams come true. Producer and record executive Jimmy Iovine has said the band “should be gigantic.” Last year, Mick Jagger hired Granduciel to remix “Scarlet,” from the Rolling Stones’ reissue of the 1973 album Goats Head Soup. The Drugs have been celebrated as a new breed guitar band revitalizing classic rock without settling for timeworn cliches. In 2018, A Deeper Understanding cemented the rock auteur status of Granduciel - who writes and sings the band’s songs - with a best rock album Grammy. In 2014, the spacious, plaintive Lost in the Dream grew their audience and won widespread acclaim. The 2011 album Slave Ambient lifted the Fishtown-founded group from small clubs to medium-sized venues. Throughout the past decade, the rock band that created their own sui generis sound from source material that includes Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan and German electronic bands such as Kraftwerk and Neu! has moved from strength to strength.
The War on Drugs’ career arc has been on an upswing ever since the night Adam Granduciel took the stage at Johnny Brenda’s for the band’s first-ever gig in 2006.
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