This Week On The Philebrity Player: The War On Drugs
Week by week, it’s a phrase we find ourselves uttering more and more: “When we start the record label…” As in: When we start the record label, we’re not even gonna fucking bother with pressing up CDs. Or: When we start the record label, fools will finally know that Philadelphia is the center of the aesthetic universe. And most often: When we start the record label, we are totally gonna sign The Yah Mos Def/Blood Feathers/Last Love Mix CD/Lord Whimsy, etc., and of course, of course, The War On Drugs. And then, when we start the record label, people will really know what we are talking about. Well, guess what: The fact of the matter is, we don’t have the money to start the record label right now. We also kinda don’t have the time, and until we clear our schedules and someone ponies up $50K for us to get this bad boy off the ground, we have something that is, in essence, better than a record label: Advocacy. There’s no overhead for advocacy, no hurt feelings, no distros to argue with, no tour support and in essence, no bullshit. So know that we are crappin’ you negative when we say that through their Velvet Underground-esque stage presence and miraculously lo-fi demos, The War On Drugs have enchanted us in a way that simply hardly ever happens anymore. The EP you have before you, Barrel Of Batteries, has been piping through the office and various house parties for a couple of months now, and it’s woven a Byrdsy path of good vibrations straight into the cerebral cortex of anyone who’s heard it. Hell, Sweeney dropped a track off of it last week at Johnny Brenda’s and people got damn near weepy. Why? Because somewhere deep in Kensington, The Real Thing keeps on manifesting itself. We don’t know why. When we think on it, all that keeps coming back to us is a riddle from one of these War On Drugs songs: Let us speak of the past in the future perfect tense. The answer’s in there somewhere, but seriously: Who the fuck needs answers when you’ve got love?
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Previously: The Philebrity Player’s Greatest Hits
Note: This week’s record on The Philebrity Player is also available for purchase as an mp3 bundle via our friends at Apollo Audio, where the tunes are always heavy and the artist gets a fair shake.
