Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
Dill pickles are ok on burgers, that's the only context in which I'll voluntarily eat anything that's been touched by dill.
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Album Rating: 4.5
I automatically assumed we were talking about dill pickles and didn't even know that dill was its own separate thing haha whoops
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Album Rating: 3.0
ill still destroy you is top 3 on here
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
Dill makes everything it touches taste like a pickle. Bleh.
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
Dropped your 5 did you Brushed?
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
Yeah because Walk It Back and Turtleneck. The last half is like a 5 and probably the best stretch this year though
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Album Rating: 4.4 | Sound Off
Walk it Back is a little overlong but redeems itself with the outro
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
The last two songs are probably their best songs
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
Walk it Back has really grown on me actually, and I honestly have a real soft spot for Turtleneck too. I've probably forced myself to love this to an extent but hey it worked!
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Album Rating: 4.4 | Sound Off
The last two have been my favs recently. This is stunning after Empire Line, which is good but not always as engaging as most of the other songs.
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Album Rating: 4.5
'The last two songs are probably their best songs'
I really enjoy them but there's no way they'd either would make a top 20 National songs for me
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Album Rating: 4.5
I used to hate Walk it Back but now I really enjoy it. Only song I don't get still is Born to Beg
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
Dark Side is still the top here for me, at this point I'm it'd def make my top 20 Natty tunes. I'm still having a hard time ranking the rest though, this thing is aggressively consistent.
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Album Rating: 4.5
I see 'Walk it Back' as the most important song on the album and the closest to the 'Sleep Well Beast' sound defined in the one tune.
'Born to Beg' I think is a classic National album cut, not a stand out but it perfectly fits in the track order.
The two I still don't quite get are 'Empire Line' and 'I'll Still Destroy You' which seem a bit lost in their grandiosity/production overload. I still like them but I don't feel like the end sections of the songs are at all emotionally connected to what came before. Basically, elements of the songs sounds great but have a 'tacked on' quality to me.
I like them in that clearly the band are trying to write in a different way and experiment. Everyone else seems to love 'Destroy You' in particular so the experimentation worked, just maybe to not quite such an extent for me personally.
Seeing the two songs performed live next week will hopefully win me over.
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Album Rating: 3.0
Born to Beg is about as bad to me as Turtleneck.
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Album Rating: 4.5
'Born to Beg' was the song that took the longest to develop an identity for me so I definitely get the criticism
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
Born to Beg was one of my immediate favorites
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Album Rating: 4.5
'Born to beg' is also one of the most traditional National sounding cuts here so I can also imagine it could be one of the most immediate for some people :3
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Album Rating: 3.0
I thought I was going to like it when it came on the first time and then it just... plods on. Feels bare for a track with lyrics that seem important to Matt. I know that's his thing to be non-chalant, but it just felt very impersonal to me, idk.
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i think it makes sense that it's a bit bare. wouldn't say nonchalant, just vulnerable/reserved. lyrics that put it all out there very simply work well against barer instrumentation. the chorus is just pristine
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