The War On Drugs announce I Dont Live Here Anymore, their first studio album in four years,out October 29th on Atlantic Records, and a 2022 North American and European tour. Inconjunction with todays announcement, they present its first song/video, Living Proof.Over the last 15 years, The War on Drugs have steadily emerged as one of this centurys greatrock and roll synthesists, removing the gaps between the underground and the mainstream,between the obtuse and the anthemic, making records that wrestle a fractured past into aunified and engrossing present. The War On Drugs have never done that as well as they dowith their fifth studio album, I Dont Live Here Anymore, an uncommon rock album about one
of our most common but daunting processesresilience in the face of despair.
Just a month after The War On Drugs A Deeper Understanding received the 2018 Grammyfor Best Rock Album, the core of Granduciel, bassist Dave Hartley, and multi-instrumentalistAnthony LaMarca retreated to upstate New York to jam and cut new demos, working outsideof the predetermined roles each member plays in the live setting. These sessions provedhighly productive, turning out early versions of some of the most immediate songs on I DontLive Here Anymore. It was the start of a dozen-plus session odyssey that spanned three yearsand seven studios, including some of rocks greatest sonic workshops like Electric Lady inNew York and Los Angeles Sound City. Band leader Adam Granduciel and trustedco-producer/engineer Shawn Everett spent untold hours peeling back every piece of thesesongs and rebuilding them.

One of the most memorable sessions occurred in May 2019 at Electro-Vox, in which the bands entire line-up rounded out by keyboardist Robbie Bennett, drummer Charlie Hall, and saxophonist Jon Natchez convened to record the affecting album opener Living Proof. Typically, Granduciel assembles The War On Drugs records from reams of overdubs, like a kind of rock n roll jigsaw puzzle. But for Living Proof, the track came together in real time, as the musicians drew on their chemistry as a live unit to summon some extemporaneous magic. The immediacy of the performance was appropriate for one of the most personal songs Granduciel has ever written.

1. Living Proof
2. Harmonias Dream
3. Change
4. I Dont Wanna Wait
5. Victim
6. I Dont Live Here Anymore
7. Old Skin
8. Wasted
9. Rings Around My Fathers Eyes
10. Occasional Rain