“I spent my whole life dreaming about playing guitar. That’s what I’m gonna do.” The War on Drugs frontman Adam Granduciel on crafting his latest—and deepest—album of his career and going from indie darling to Madison Square Garden.
, Granduciel’s “Springsteen fandom is well documented , but he’s never made a song as welcoming as ‘Hungry Heart’ until now.”
Adam Granofsky grew up in Massachusetts, not New Jersey, but his childhood still had some of the hallmarks of a Springsteen song. His father owned a women’s clothing store in the North End of Boston. “He sold ‘irregulars,’ as they call them,” Granduciel says. “He’d buy a box of jeans for $2 and sell them for $9. That was the name of the game.” Granduciel remembers riding his bike around Boston with the son of his father’s employee.
Granduciel went to Dickinson College in Pennsylvania, spent a year in Oakland, and then bounced back to Massachusetts, where he took a job waiting tables at Joe’s American Bar and Grill in Boston. “Wearing an American flag tie,” he recalls. “Horrible, horrible, horrible job.” the first War on Drugs album without any contributions from Vile, Granduciel began approaching the music more methodically. “I’m trying to write more songs that I’ll still want to sing in five or six years,” heHe was in a dark place at the time. A painful breakup was at least partly responsible for the album’s spellbinding pathos, and Dave Hartley said that Granduciel’s “tortured” approach to making the record was “a little bit tough to be involved with as a bandmate.”was universally acclaimed.
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