The War On Drugs / Wagonwheel Blues
Artist The War On Drugs
Album Title: Wagonwheel Blues
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Primary Genre Alternative & Punk: Indie
Format Vinyl
Released 06/19/2008
Label Secretly Canadian Records
Catalog No SC167
Bar Code No 6 56605 01671 9
Packaging LP Sleeve
Tracks
A1. Arms Like Boulders (5:20)
A2. Taking The Farm (4:00)
A3. Coast Reprise (3:15)
A4. Buenos Aires Beach (3:23)
A5. There Is No Urgency (6:19)
B1. A Needle In Your Eye #16 (4:54)
B2. Reverse The Charges (3:20)
B3. Show Me The Coast (10:04)
B4. Barrel Of Batteries (2:30)
Date Acquired 09/23/2014
Personal Rating
Acquired from The Band At A Gig
Purchase Price 20.00

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Notes

I bought this from the band at a First Avenue gig.

Includes a download coupon and a printed insert.
©&℗ 2008 Secretly Canadian
1499 West 2nd Street, Bloomington, IN 47403
Taking the Farm and No Urgency mixed [...] at Miner St.
Track durations not listed on release.
Art Direction, Layout – Daniel Murphy
Electric Guitar [Electric 12-String Guitar], Acoustic Guitar [Acoustic 12-String Guitar], Lead Guitar [Lead Jazzmaster], Vocals, Synthesizer [OB-8], Electric Piano [Rhodes], Trumpet, Piano – Kurt Vile
Engineer [Additional Engineering] – Kyle Lloyd, Michael Johnson
Mastered By – Paul Gold
Mixed By – Brian McTear (tracks: A2, A5), Paul Cobb (tracks: A1), Ryan Cobb (tracks: A1)
Music By – Adam Granduciel, Vile (tracks: A2, A3, B3)
Photography By [SX70 Photos] – A. Granduciel
Producer – Adam Granduciel, Jeff Zeigler, Kurt Vile
Recorded By – Paul Cobb (tracks: A1, A2, A5), Ryan Cobb (tracks: A1, A2, A5)
Recorded By, Mixed By – A. Granduciel (tracks: A3, A4, B2, B4), Jeff Zeigler (tracks: B1, B3)
Technician [Amplifiers Prepared By] – John Martin
Technician [SSL Treatments] – Jeff Zeigler
Vocals, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Harmonica, Drums, Organ, Sampler, Electric Piano [Rhodes], Tape [Ms16], Piano – Adam Granduciel
Words By – Adam Granduciel
Copyright (c) – Secretly Canadian
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Secretly Canadian
Mixed At – Miner Street Recordings
Published By – SeaFormationMusic
Barcode: 6 56605 01671 9
Matrix / Runout: SC167LP - A
Matrix / Runout: SC167LP - B
Rights Society: ASCAP

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DR              Peak         RMS     Duration      Track
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DR13      -0.86 dB   -15.89 dB       5:20 01 - Arms Like Boulders
DR12      -0.45 dB   -14.90 dB       4:00 02 - Taking the Farm
DR12      -2.89 dB   -18.45 dB       3:14 03 - Coast Reprise
DR12      -1.50 dB   -15.26 dB       3:24 04 - Buenos Aires Beach
DR11      -1.69 dB   -15.37 dB       6:15 05 - There Is No Urgency
DR12      -0.32 dB   -15.25 dB       4:55 06 - A Needle in Your Eye #16
DR11      -9.48 dB   -24.40 dB       3:17 07 - Reverse the Charges
DR11      -0.00 dB   -12.94 dB     10:03 08 - Show Me the Coast
DR10      -7.58 dB   -20.10 dB       2:20 09 - Barrel of Batteries
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Number of tracks:  9
Official DR value: DR12
Samplerate: 96000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 2736 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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Reviews
All Music Guide Review:

Review by Ned Raggett

The first full-length by the War on Drugs is at once an album of its time -- indie rock as collection and collage of classic rock sonic signifiers that rank former tourmates Neil Young and Sonic Youth as equal inspirations -- and something that stretches beyond those expectations. That may sound like damning with faint praise, but given indie's crisis of confidence in itself in the 21st century, finding all sorts of "real" rock to hold on to as a rear-guard action against pop's all-devouring reworking of world-wide sounds, hearing a band that doesn't sound beholden to create some sort of huge statement with their album is rather refreshing. Adam Granduciel's role as frontman is the kind of slightly strangled vocal signifier that could make one group of listeners think of Bob Dylan or Ian Hunter, and another of Half Japanese, while just as similarly the full band lineup seems to want to constantly move easily back and forth between an older set of sounds and a slightly newer one, with a definite bias towards the kind of lush guitar atmospherics that found a congenial home in the U.K. in the '80s and early '90s. (Though sometimes the balance is fully skewed, as with the post-shoegaze chime and shimmer of the instrumental "Coast Reprise.") A sign of the kind of mix-and-match at play comes early on with "Taking the Farm," which sounds as much like the Cocteau Twins as it does like a Tex-Mex romp, while "A Needle in Your Eye #16" might be the slyest Spacemen 3 tribute ever, taking all the elements from that band at its best (droney gospel keyboard vamps, blunt drumming, rapture via psychedelia) and recombining it with their own specific stamp thanks to Granduciel's singing. In all, an unexpected delight.

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