Album Rating: 4.5

“I think you got a little bit taller since I saw you.

I’ll still destroy you.”

Jesus Christ, Matt

Album Rating: 4.0

that song/line is such a dang gut punch

Album Rating: 4.0

"That’s a combination of knowing no matter how hard you try your children will pick up things – mostly from your behaviour, or just from your chemistry or just from your DNA. One way or another a lot of the things that you carry with you, you will pass on."

Album Rating: 5.0

my favorite song from this album by far

Album Rating: 4.5

Top 5 National track period, tbh

Album Rating: 5.0

it's not out of the question. prob somewhere in the 5-7 range for me. high violet holds an unfair share of my top 5

Album Rating: 4.5

Tbh, even limiting their catalogue to a top 20 would feel like beating the old head against the wall. The four record run from Boxer through this is just fucking absurd.

Album Rating: 5.0

one of the greatest bands of our time...arguably the best

Album Rating: 4.5

I’d probably lean somewhere a little more noisy like The Drones or Swans 2.0 or something, but it’s still mighty hard to argue. This last decade had an unbelievable amount of extraordinary songwriting happening.

Album Rating: 4.0

"Tbh, even limiting their catalogue to a top 20 would feel like beating the old head against the wall. The four record run from Boxer through this is just fucking absurd."



The absolute disrespect to Alligator... how dare you

Album Rating: 4.0

Also National albums with black covers > National albums with grey covers

Album Rating: 4.5

Any disrespect to Alligator’s purely because they had the audacity to follow up a great record with a series of masterpieces!

But your color theory doesn’t hold up when High Violet and Trouble Will Find Me are basically the two best records in modern alt rock! Come correct!

Album Rating: 4.5

lol yeah imagine believing Alligator isn't their masterpiece

Album Rating: 4.5

Imagine believing Alligator isn’t an auspicious statement of purpose from a band of sterling songwriters who would take it’s promise and continue to develop it into ever more complex and cohesive statements. < 3

Album Rating: 4.5

thats v pretty and all chief but I can't subscribe

Album Rating: 4.0

I never got into Carin At The Liquor Store initially, but it's been hitting me hard lately

Album Rating: 4.5

I can say the same about most of the second half of this.

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

The last 4 tracks here are in the running for my favorite run of National tracks, those songs really solidify this as a classic.

Album Rating: 4.0

yeah this is one of my favourites from them. very strong songwriting. "I'll Still Destroy You" is sublime.

Album Rating: 4.0

I'll Still Destroy You is a top 10 song from the band for me, but a bunch of tracks on here have grown on me with time. I still don't "get" the title track at all though