aaamusic | On 16, Jul 2011

The video is culled and edited from The War On Drugs’ main man Adam Granduciel’s collection of super 8 film footage. The kaleidoscopic work throughout finds its raw source material in Granduciel’s experimental medium format photography, the very same exposed film featured on the artwork for Slave Ambient. The video is directed by Labour and produced by Greencard Pictures.

As previously announced, The War On Drugs will tour extensively in Autumn, making it over to Europe and UK in September. The dates are below, and more shows will be announced in the coming weeks.

THE WAR ON DRUGS TOUR DATES:

Thu. Sep. 8 – Lisbon, Portugal @ Terraza Hotel Regency
Fri. Sep. 9 – San Sebastian, Spain @ Club Victoria Eugenia
Sun. Sep. 11 – Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Paradiso w/ Megafaun
Mon. Sep. 12 – Tilburg, Netherlands @ Incubate Festival w/ Megafaun
Tue. Sep. 13 – London, UK @ Lexington
Wed. Sep. 14 – Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club
Thu. Sep. 15 – Sheffield, UK @ Drowned In Sound presents at The Harley
Fri. Sep. 16 – Brighton, UK @ Green Door Store
Sat. Sep. 17 – Brussels, Belgium @ AB Club
Mon. Sep. 21 – Berlin, Germany @ NBI Club
Tue. Sep. 20 – Copenhagen, Denmark @ Loppen
Wed. Sep. 21 – Stockholm, Sweden @ Lilla Hotelbaren
Thu. Sep. 22 – Malmo, Sweden @ Debaser
Fri. Sep. 23 – Hamburg, Germany @ Reeperbahn Festival
Sat. Sep. 24 – Cologne, Germany @ King Georg
Sun. Sep. 25 – Venlo, Netherlands @ Perron 55
Mon. Sep. 26 – Paris, France @ Point FMR
Fri. Oct. 14 — Pensacola, FL @ DeLuna Festival

Download ‘Baby Missiles’: http://www.scjag.com/mp3/sc/babymissiles.mp3

Recorded throughout the last four years at frontman Adam Granduciel’s home studio in Philadelphia, Jeff Ziegler’s Uniform Recording and Echo Mountain in Asheville, NC, ‘Slave Ambient’ puts the weirdest influences in just the right places. Synthesizers fall where you might expect more electric guitars (and vice versa); country-rock sidles up to the warped extravagance of ’80s pop. Instant classic ‘Baby Missiles’ is part Springsteen fever dream, part motorik anthem. ‘Original Slave’ might sound like a hillbilly power drone, but ‘City Reprise #12’ suggests Phil Collins un-retiring to back Harmonia.

The War on Drugs “Baby Missiles” from Secretly Jag on Vimeo.