It’s been three years since the release of The War On Drugs’ Best Album of the Year list-topping Lost in the Dream — which, by today’s insanely fickle pop culture standards, makes the band’s brand new single feel like a resurrection from the dead.
“Thinking of a Place,” which marks the band’s debut for Atlantic Records, came out as a special 12” on Record Store Day and heralds the yet-to-be-announced fourth LP (coming soon, apparently!). Produced by the group’s founder and main honcho Adam Granduciel and recorded and mixed by Shawn Everett, the eleven-minute long epic is somehow even more Dire Straits’esque than all of their other Dire Straits’esque songs! (And yes, that’s a good thing.)
Granduciel and core live members Dave Hartley, Robbie Bennett, Charlie Hall, Anthony LaMarca, and Jon Natchez are about to take their music on one heck of a tour, too; they will perform in thirty-odd North American and European cities between late September and November. Crane your neck and eyesballs down towards the bottom of the page for the full itinerary (after you listen to “Thinking of a Place” right down below, that is):
The War On Drugs tour dates:
09.21.17 – Philadelphia, PA – Dell Music Center
09.22.17 – New York, NY – SummerStage in Central Park
09.23.17 – Boston, MA – Blue Hills Bank Pavilion
09.25.17 – Charlotte, NC – The Fillmore Charlotte
09.26.17 – Atlanta, GA – The Tabernacle
09.28.17 – Dallas, TX – The Bomb Factory
09.29.17 – Houston, TX – White Oak Music Hall [Outside Lawn]
09.30.17 – Austin, TX – Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater
10.05.17 – Los Angeles, CA – Greek Theatre
10.06.17 – Berkeley, CA – Greek Theatre
10.09.17 – Seattle, WA – Moore Theatre
10.11.17 – Portland, OR – Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
10.13.17 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Complex
10.14.17 – Denver, CO – Ogden Theatre
10.18.17 – St. Paul, MN – Palace Theatre
10.19.17 – Chicago, IL – Riviera Theatre
10.20.17 – Columbus, OH – Express Live!
10.21.17 – Toronto, ON – Massey Hall
11.02.17 – Amsterdam, NL – AFAS Live
11.03.17 – Cologne, DE – E-Werk
11.04.17 – Brussels, BE – Forest National
11.06.17 – Paris, FR – Bataclan
11.09.17 – Glasgow, UK – Barrowlands
11.10.17 – Glasgow, UK – Barrowlands
11.12.17 – Manchester, UK – O2 Apollo Manchester
11.14.17 – London, UK – Alexandra Palace
11.17.17 – Zurich, CH – X-tra
11.18.17 – Milan, IT – Fabrique
11.20.17 – München, DE – Muffathalle
11.21.17 – Hamburg, DE – Große Freiheit 36
11.22.17 – Berlin, DE – Tempodrom
11.24.17 – Oslo, NO – Spektrum
11.25.17 – Copenhagen, DK – Tap 1
11.27.17 – Stockholm, SE – Annexet