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"When the band's wide-screened psychedelic flourishes are fused with Granduciel's well-worn Dylan- and Petty-isms, songs like ‘Brothers' and ‘It's Your Destiny' wondrously conjure nothing so much as the Traveling Wilburys recording for mid-1980s 4AD."-- Stuart Berman, Pitchfork [Best New Music]

"These Philly rockers conjure an ambling drone that conceals real pop hooks and allows classic-rock colors to seep through. Main man Adam Granduciel gets plenty of Dylan comparisons, but Slave Ambient feels like a more back-alley Byrds filtered through a gauzier Spacemen 3 lens." -- SPIN.com [The Best Albums of 2011 ... So Far]

"by deftly, smartly combining bits and pieces of the past four decades of electric guitar music and mixing it with a sturdy, rolling thunder rhythm that pushed songs forward with ridiculous amounts of momentum, the War on Drugs created a magical wormhole out of electricity, muscle and faded blue jeans." -- Randall Roberts, LA Times

"The brooding, ethereally layered roots-rock of the War on Drugs, a Philadelphia band built around the slack vocals and anything-but-slack creative vision of Adam Granduciel, has never sounded better than it does on ‘Slave Ambient'" - Nate Chinen, The New York Times

“shambolic, shamanistic and completely cool." - Chris Talbott, Associated Press

"The War On Drugs goes big on Slave Ambient, strumming and swelling all the way back to the cheap seats." -- Steve Hyden, The A.V. Club

"bridges the considerable distance between Düsseldorf and Nashville." -- Village Voice

"a swath of nostalgia in a storm of mind-bending audio. This is boss-gaze, and—sorry, old dudes and purity chasers—it's stupendous." -- Under The Radar

"On a sleepy Sunday night in Minneapolis, The War On Drugs came into the Entry and confidently delivered one of the shows of the year. Now that is the way to end a weekend." -- Minneapolis City Pages' Gimme Noise

“You'll likely decide to play this all the way through again before it's even half over. It's that cohesive and melodically insistent.” -- SF Weekly's All Shook Down

“Alternately downhome and astral, Adam Granduciel's arrangements on this slice of dreamy rock are locomotive, tinged with wistfulness, and unfold and sprawl like a field gone green in spring.” -- Premier Guitar

"Classic rock reborn with added sizzle and drone." – Uncut

"A work of real wonder." – MOJO

"A record so accomplished that it already feels timeless . . . This is a near-flawless rock album, and certainly one of the best you'll hear all year." --The Quietus

"Get your motorik running: the Philly art-rockers tear down the lesser-travelled highway that links Boss-sized US road-rock, Krautrock and drone noise." -- The Independent

“Granduciel's burgeoning compositional skills and his vast attention to intricately wrought sonic structures make Slave Ambient rich with things money alone can't buy – wit, imagination, ambition, excitement, that kind of thing. It's a thrill. Something's happening wherever you turn on tracks that are dense with detail and brilliant accumulations of incident, but never overwrought or too busy, sheer grace their common link.” -- Uncut (5 stars)

“Their debut, Wagonwheel Blues, promised much, but with Slave Ambient, they've made good on that promise and then some. . . this echoes with vibrant life, a work of real wonder.” – MOJO (4 stars)