Best of 2014 The DIY List 2014: The year in music [20 - 11]
Albums, tracks, live performances, funny tweets and fierce rants - all count in The DIY List, our definitive rundown of who and what made our 2014.
December means list season - a time when everyone, from magazines and websites to shops, blogs and even you, dear reader, will work out exactly what your album, track or musically themed vegetable of the year really is. Off they’ll go into an ordered rundown; a factual account of what music was the best of the last twelve months.
That’s ace, but we want to do something that better reflects what DIY is. We’re all about music, sure. We happily grade albums with shiny stars, tell you what our tracks of the week are or tip you off to the hottest new thing, but when it comes down to it, it isn’t that simple. See, while we love the raw material they come out with, it removes so much of what we really have a crush on - bands themselves. While a great album makes a great act, it’s the personality, the full thing that really makes us excited.
So, instead of the usual end of year lists for individual types of releases, we’ve thrown it all together into one definitive list of artists. Between 15th and 19th December we’ll be publishing all kinds of features, interviews, retrospectives and archive pieces to explain just why they rank as they do. Albums, tracks, live performances, funny tweets and fierce rants - all count in The List, our definitive run down of who and what made our 2014.
Records, etc at
The War On Drugs - Wagonwheel Blues (Cd)
The War On Drugs - Wagonwheel Blues (Vinyl LP)
The War On Drugs - Slave Ambient (Vinyl LP - purple)
The War On Drugs - Slave Ambient (Cd)
The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream (Cd)
The War On Drugs - I Don’t Live Here Anymore (Vinyl LP - black)
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Sam Fender teases new music with The War On Drugs’ Adam Granduciel
The Geordie guitar hero has shared clips of them in the studio together via Instagram.
14th March 2024, 11:01am
The War On Drugs announce UK and European live dates
It follows last year’s fifth album ‘I Don’t Live Here Anymore’.
8th November 2022, 9:40pm
The War on Drugs - I Don’t Live Here Anymore
3-5 Stars
Fans of the songwriter’s lush reinterpretations of his classic rock influences will not be disappointed.
28th October 2021, 7:56am
The War On Drugs release ‘I Don’t Live Here Anymore’
It's the title track from their forthcoming new album.
15th September 2021, 12:00am
With Bob Vylan, St Vincent, girl in red, Lizzy McAlpine and more.