Adam Granduciel

In Adam’s recent Instagram live he showed off his synth collection - included was the Juno 106, that has been no doubt used for the War On Drugs’ upcoming album.

In this Adam can also be found stating that the Juno 106 is his 'favourite synth' and that whenever he uses another synth, he always ends up trying to recreate the sound of the Juno.

From the Liner Notes/Credits of 'A Deeper Understanding' we can see that the Juno 106 was used on the songs 'Pain' and 'Thinking Of A Place'. The credits quoted can be found here: https://www.discogs.com/The-War-On-Drugs-A-Deeper-Understanding/release/10756085

When releasing their highly acclaimed album, 'A Deeper Understanding', Adam decided to put what synths were used on each track in the Liner Notes and Credits. As we can see from above the Prophet 12 was used by The War On Drugs keyboardist Robbie Bennett on the song 'Up All Night' and 'Thinking of a Place'. The War On Drugs also took the Prophet 12 on tour with them after the release of 'A Deeper Understanding'.

The Credits with all the listed synths can be found here: https://www.discogs.com/The-War-On-Drugs-A-Deeper-Understanding/release/10756085

When releasing their highly acclaimed album, 'A Deeper Understanding', Adam decided to put what synths were used on each track in the Liner notes and Credits.

From this we can see that they used the Prophet 6 on the song 'Holding On'.

The Credits with all the listed synths can be found here: https://www.discogs.com/The-War-On-Drugs-A-Deeper-Understanding/release/10756085

On Adam’s recent Instagram Live, his Roland Juno-60 can be seen at 5:00 as he shows off his synth collection before playing some rough mixes of a few songs of the upcoming War On Drugs album. The Juno-60 was no doubt used for the recording of this album.

When releasing their highly acclaimed album, 'A Deeper Understanding', Adam decided to put what synths were used on each track in the Liner notes and Credits.

The Vox Jaguar can be seen in the Credits, used by Adam on the song 'Thinking Of A Place'

The Credits with all the listed synths can be found here: https://www.discogs.com/The-War-On-Drugs-A-Deeper-Understanding/release/10756085

When releasing their highly acclaimed album, 'A Deeper Understanding', Adam decided to put what synths were used on each track in the Liner notes and Credits.

The ARP Solina can be seen to be used on the tracks 'Strangest Thing', 'In Chains' and 'Clean Living', all of which were used on by Adam.

Adam can also be seen quoting the use of the synth in the Boston Globe article with him. That article can be found here: https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2017/09/20/war-drugs-adam-granduciel-sweats-every-detail-pursuit-perfection/Ul3jUYasSWOoblcy8D790K/story.html

The Credits with all the listed synths can be found here: https://www.discogs.com/The-War-On-Drugs-A-Deeper-Understanding/release/10756085

When releasing their highly acclaimed album, 'A Deeper Understanding', Adam decided to put what synths were used on each track in the Liner notes and Credits. As can be seen in the photo, the Sequential Circuits Prophet 5 was used by Adam on the song 'Strangest Thing'. It was also used on the final two tracks from the album, 'Clean Living' and 'You Don't Have To Go'.

Adam is also quoted speaking about the use of the Prophet 5 in this article: https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2017/09/20/war-drugs-adam-granduciel-sweats-every-detail-pursuit-perfection/Ul3jUYasSWOoblcy8D790K/story.html

The Credits with all the listed synths can be found here: https://www.discogs.com/The-War-On-Drugs-A-Deeper-Understanding/release/10756085

When releasing their highly acclaimed album, 'A Deeper Understanding', Adam decided to put what synths were used on each track in the Liner notes and Credits.

From this we can see that Adam used the PolyKorg on the song 'Knocked Down'

The Credits with all the listed synths can be found here: https://www.discogs.com/The-War-On-Drugs-A-Deeper-Understanding/release/10756085

When releasing their highly acclaimed album, 'A Deeper Understanding', Adam decided to put what synths were used on each track in the Liner Notes and Credits of 'A Deeper Understanding'. In his interview with Boston Globe (https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2017/09/20/war-drugs-adam-granduciel-sweats-every-detail-pursuit-perfection/Ul3jUYasSWOoblcy8D790K/story.html) Adam said 'I could easily just say synths. But even if I play a little bit of the song on this one synth, it's probably a specific part or something, so I want them to be like, 'Oh what's a Yamaha CS-5? Oh that's cool.' From this we can see Adam used the Yamaha CS-5 on 'A Deeper Understanding' and we can gather from the liner notes of the album (as seen above + highlighted) that the CS-5 was used on the song 'Up All Night'

When releasing their highly acclaimed album, 'A Deeper Understanding', Adam decided to put what synths were used on each track in the Liner notes and Credits.

On the song 'Strangest Thing' the Korg Trident is credited to be used by Adam.

Adam can also be seen quoting the use of the synth in the Boston Globe article with him. That article can be found here: https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2017/09/20/war-drugs-adam-granduciel-sweats-every-detail-pursuit-perfection/Ul3jUYasSWOoblcy8D790K/story.html

The Credits with all the listed synths can be found here: https://www.discogs.com/The-War-On-Drugs-A-Deeper-Understanding/release/10756085

When releasing their highly acclaimed album, 'A Deeper Understanding', Adam decided to put what synths were used on each track in the Liner notes and Credits.

From this we can see that the ARP Odyssey was used on the songs 'Up All Night' and also on the final song of the album 'You Don't Have To Go'

The Credits with all the listed synths can be found here: https://www.discogs.com/The-War-On-Drugs-A-Deeper-Understanding/release/10756085