Slave ambient

"The songs on Slave Ambient don't necessarily end in a place very different from where they began, but through subtle sonic manipulations and layering-- like in the last two minutes of opener "Best Night", where the guitars, piano, and melodica start to blur into the same blissful wavelength-- they give the impression that a great distance has been traveled. The really amazing thing about the album is how anthemic and affirming it feels despite the near total absence of proper sing-along choruses".

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"If the basic balance remains unchanged, the result has been a sound just enough of the War on Drugs' own as a result, which gets stronger and even more droned out and powerful as the album continues. More than once they find just the right way to make it all click into something even more distinct".

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"Går man tættere på Slave Ambient, så møder man et album med et rullende og let stigende tempo med rumklang på trommerne, som var det stadionrock, mens den regulære akustiske guitar-strumming mødes af en hvirvelvind af mindre riffs, der i naturlig orden bliver slynget i luften - på enten elektrisk guitar, synthesizer, orgel, mundharmonika med mere - der ender i fortættede, omsluttende, intense klimakser, modsat netop Kurt Vile, der er trukket den anden vej og skræller ind til benet".