Hear the brilliant third album from Philadelphia’s The War on Drugs, and let us know what you think in the comments below …

Adam Granduciel wasn’t in a happy place when he began work on Lost in the Dream, his third album under the name The War on Drugs. Yet from his unhappiness he’s conjured something magical. ”Even though I feel some of the content of the lyrics might be lonely, I don’t want to make sad, brooding music, I want to make uplifting music,” he told the Guardian’s Michael Hann for a forthcoming interview. “But lyrically I felt like I had to go into a part of myself I hadn’t done before in my songs or work harder at it. I needed to go there and see how far I could let myself go, and put into music the way I was feeling.”

Lost in the Dream picks up where his previous record, Slave Ambient, left off: it drips with the sounds and textures of 80s AOR – you can hear a lot of Springsteen in there, with some Mark Knopfler, a dash of Don Henley – but played by a committed space-rock head. We think it’s great. Have a listen and tell us what you think.

