{"id":405329,"date":"2026-04-22T15:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/405329\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T15:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:44:08","slug":"the-war-on-drugs-new-album-is-almost-done-adam-granduciel-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/405329\/","title":{"rendered":"The War On Drugs’ New Album Is Almost Done, Adam Granduciel Says"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re coming up on five years since the War On Drugs released their major-label debut I Don’t Live Here Anymore<\/a>, our favorite album of 2021<\/a>. Despite some teasers<\/a> indicating new music is well underway, the fan base is growing impatient. So it’s with great pleasure that I pass along news that the sixth Drugs studio album is nearing competion.<\/p>\n

Lead Drugs warrior Adam Granduciel recently gave a new interview to Guitar.com<\/a> about his love of effects pedals. “I wake up every morning thinking about what\u2019s on my pedalboard,” Granduciel says. “And I have so many pedalboards everywhere. I love that feeling of when you plug into one and just think, ‘Oh, that\u2019s amazing!'”<\/p>\n

The interview was conducted backstage at this year’s National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) convention, where Granduciel was being honored by pedal manufacturer Boss for his lifelong embrace of their products. He mostly talks about his various Boss pedals and why he believes they’re the best in the biz. But near the end, interviewer Josh Gardner does ask about the existence of new Drugs music. Granduciel says it’s almost done, and he made it at home:<\/p>\n

Yeah I\u2019m almost done making a record, and we\u2019re close to the end. I wanted to do something that\u2019s not different, necessarily, in terms of the way it sounds, but something that\u2019s trying to get back to the first couple of records I made.<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s basically fully homemade. I mean, people always joke because I\u2019m like, “I want to make a homemade record.” And they come to my house and my studio is like, vintage API and all my Neve stuff\u2026 and they\u2019re like, “This is a homemade record?!”<\/p>\n

But the only way I could do this record is if I had all the time and the access to be able to do it the way I want. So, it\u2019s coming along, but I just work on it all the time. It still sounds like a band, but there\u2019s all sorts of stuff.<\/p>\n

Of course, the natural follow-up question was “Are there any new pedals that are heavily featuring on the new record?” To which Granduciel responded, “It\u2019s always similar ones, like the Digital Dimension. I did get a Bi-Phase recently, a vintage one, so I put that on everything! I traded a whole bunch of stuff to a kid for a Bi-Phase!”<\/p>\n

Lucky kid! And lucky us! Drop the album, Adam!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We’re coming up on five years since the War On Drugs released their major-label debut I Don’t Live…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-405329","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}