“It was the beginning of a dark and isolated period for Granduciel, one that gave him such bad panic attacks that he contemplated suicide, hyperventilated during Breaking Bad, and became convinced he was suffering brain tumors and heart attacks. Even seeing a therapist recommended by Hartley, who recognized in him his own anxieties, made him feel worse. When Granduciel surfaced from a year of writing and recording, it was with Lost in the Dream, the most magnificent album of the War on Drugs’ already stellar career.”
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