Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

Johnny come to Sydney and we can serenade each other with Little by Little at pub karaoke. Bello can watch.

Album Rating: 2.5

last three Natty are not a tough bar to clear, but this definitely does do that and pretty damn comprehensively

Nah, LAUGH TRACK clears this in a walk. The other two, sure.

Album Rating: 3.5

This is nice, but generally speaking nothing at all post-SWB has been worth consistently revisiting for me. Laugh Track comes closest, but it's too inconsistent to fit into the mold of "vintage National"

Album Rating: 3.5

This is surprisingly solid, who would have thought? I used to snooze big time both on his previous solo album and on that EL VY thing.

Album Rating: 2.5

yeah this tows the line between being unremarkable enough for me to seldom revisit yet is still an improvement over post-SWB Natty



I mean it’s almost definitely an improvement but a slice of boredom may already be setting in. Hmm.

Album Rating: 3.5

This just sounds a bit more authentic/genuine than The National now and not quite sure how he makes that transmit.

Album Rating: 2.5

I can agree with that

track where he mumbles the words in baritone is insanely grating. album score might improve by 0.5 with the removal of that one song tbh.

that could describe literally any song he's ever sung on
"Little by Little at pub karaoke. Bello can watch."
yes 100% lfg love a gimp singalong

true but there's one specifically here that takes that to the extreme and you know exactly what song to which i'm referring

Album Rating: 4.0

Nowhere Special is the best track here!

comfortably so. standard tectactoe L

Gross, you guys are gross. If I wanted to hear that sort of unintelligible bumbling I'd listen to Tindersticks.

“Bonnet of Pins”, “Frozen Oranges” and “Nowhere Special” are the definite keepers.

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lemme fix that If I wanted to hear that sort of unintelligible bumbling I'd put on Smoke Detector and get back to glazing [overbearing allcaps]laugh track[/overbearing allcaps]

6/10 is hardly a glaze but the best tracks on LAUGH TRACK—Space Invader; Deep End; Weird Goodbyes; and Alphabet City—are comfortably better than every single track on this whispery, pleasant enough but painfully anodyne waiting room playlist. Make no mistake, LAUGH TRACK has its pockmarks too (Dreaming, title track, Tour Manager) but at least occasionally has a pulse. Either way probably not much value in arguing which bits of the carcass of a once-great singer/songwriter are "better" than others. Everything this man and his band have done since 2018 has been various shades of disappointing.

Album Rating: 4.0

Alphabet City is great but I don't really care about those other tracks. Turn Off the House & Hornets are Laugh Tracks' best songs to me, and I've grown to like the t/t and Tour Manager quite a lot as well (I like sappy National)