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Writer's pictureAlexander T. Ouasef

The War On Drugs - Pain.

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The War On Drugs - Pain.


If you’ve ever thought of embarking on a cross-country drive in search of your high school sweetheart, who’s definitely a mom now and her husband owns a gun, with half a tank of gas and a mostly-caffeinated thought process at 3:00 in the morning, then Pain is definitely the chill music you want playing on repeat on your Spotify playlist!

If you’ve ever thought of embarking on a cross-country drive in search of your high school sweetheart, who’s definitely a mom now and her husband owns a gun, with half a tank of gas and a mostly-caffeinated thought process at 3:00 in the morning, then Pain is definitely the chill music you want playing on repeat on your Spotify playlist!


Bridging beautifully the gap between Indie-rock and electronic music, The War On Drugs has been once again successful in creating a masterpiece that not only stirs up emotion but definitely puts motion into this “muscle” between your ears – no wonder they’re called The War On Drugs.


When music therapy is part of your everyday drive home from work, and soothing music is definitely part of that prescription, Pain, with the ambivalent mix of guitar, piano, and electronic music, offers a no-substance-needed gate to Alice in Wonderland, right there in the comfort of your car seat, and hopefully absent of any traffic light distractions.


The only way I can possibly paint the picture of what Pain makes you feel, two minutes in, would be quite simple: imagine the first day of summer break, you’re sitting shotgun in Dad’s car, and you’re going through infinite voids of corn fields to god-knows-where. It’s just pure nostalgia of a cannonball jump in the pool you never did or an ice cream you never had; you just know it was great, and that high of thinking about it is all this song prods out of you.


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