Album Rating: 3.7
EL VY was a great EP stretched out into an okay album
I still listen to the first two songs and Crank the Sun a lot
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Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off
album is a fucking bore.
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Confused why the language of the review seems to imply The National are done? Haven’t heard anything of the sorry
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Album Rating: 3.5
Very much agree with Row’s take on El Vy.
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Damn that was a boring listen
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Album Rating: 3.0
Had no clue about this album, will check, nice review
Haven't been much in The National mood lately though, especially after the last album, but well
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Album Rating: 3.5
I mean, Matt going to write National songs. That's what Matt do.
Is this record exciting? Is your favorite sweater exciting?
Matt can write like 20 more of these records if he wants. That'd be fine. It's sorta just all aural tomato soup.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Quite enjoying this, very breezy but with all Matt's songwriting trademarks
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Album Rating: 3.5
It's a better National album than IAETF that's a cert
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Album Rating: 3.7
y'all still dumb about that I see. no worries tho
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Album Rating: 4.0
IAETF wowed me at first but over time it has almost entirely eroded. I still enjoy Quiet Light, Oblivion, The Pull of You, and Rylan. It's a 3.5 in a discography of 4.5's and 5's.
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Album Rating: 3.5
Right now I like them about the same, this is more consistent and listenable imo though
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Album Rating: 4.0
i'm really liking this on first listen and i can see it grow on me more like national related stuff usally does
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Album Rating: 3.7
IAETF is better tracklisted/paced and is more thematically satisfying than the three National albums that came before it
if I haven't received death threats over this comment by the time I'm back I'll consider it a personal affront. godspeed
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Album Rating: 3.5
I strongly disagree but I ain’t gonna crucify you because I think my enjoyment of IAETF is still closer to yours than the average fan’s
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Album Rating: 3.5
I'll kill you Row
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Aural nyquil
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Album Rating: 3.7
was I rushing or dragging anat
"I strongly disagree but I ain’t gonna crucify you because I think my enjoyment of IAETF is still closer to yours than the average fan’s"
probably lol. it baffles me that Beast was generally well received as this big successful 'experimental' (relative to The National) swing when it had maybe two songs that were actually bold departures and the rest were just National by-the-numbers (some in ways that are still good, like Nobody Else Will Be There; some are among the worst National songs of all time like Day I Die and Turtleneck)
meanwhile IAETF actually substantially changes their sound, texture, way of songwriting and even the main vocals and crickets. it leads me to believe either National fans didn't actually want them to depart from their sound and just want Boxer over and over again, or I'm completely cracked and hearing a different album from everybody else. (possibly both are true)
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yeah but iaetf has like no emotion and is retardedly boring
i mean it had been coming for a while, last classic album they put out was boxer, but god at least the others felt sincere rather than vapid indie bollocks
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IAETF boiled their sound down to a set of ultrapredictable piano chords and easylistening dynamics and neverending non-starter daydreams that were literally copy and pasted into a !#*%@^ Taylor Swift record without a shred of friction, so in that sense ig it was a radical switchup to the fundaments of whatever you'd expect from a previously deceptively innovative indie outfit yes
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