Album Rating: 3.0

What's uncomfortable about this? Sounds like pretty standard stuff to me. It all bleeds together instead of being diversified.

Album Rating: 3.0

Vanderlyle is my least favorite national song lyrically blergh

Album Rating: 3.0

I love crybaby geeks but all the wine is way better

Album Rating: 3.0

Yeah the lyrics are pretty garbage. Not nearly as into high violet as most people, besides a few songs, notably sorrow and the first half of conversation

Album Rating: 4.5

It's abstract as fuck at points, I don't think it's an easy listen at all. It asks quite a lot of the listener, more than any other National album I'd say.

Best album to start with these guys?

Album Rating: 4.5

'Crybaby' is 10/10 absolutely incredible live. I love the vocal melodies on that song, the words fit like perfection. It's almost physically impossible for me not to want to sing along to it.



I can barely muster the will to press play for 'All the Wine' but hey, differences of tastes

Album Rating: 4.5

Clay - 'Alligator' and 'Boxer' back to back

Album Rating: 3.0

Bulllshit. It's so mundane. If alligator celebrated maturing youth, then this is a representation of the tedium of middle aged life. Idk, i just don't get it. This is in no way challenging imo. Moreover, it sports some pretty boring ass hooks. If it werent for the 4 songs i love, this would br a hard 2.5

Album Rating: 4.5

It's a different animal, I like what it's trying to achieve but I can definitely see this album as really divisive. I'll agree some of the hooks on the album let it down at times ('I'll Still Destroy You' is bailed out by the production/instrumentation, 'Born to Beg' is pretty but not too much more) but overall it's just hook-y enough but clearly focuses more on mood and abstraction.

Album Rating: 3.0

you could play most of this in a department store and no one would bat an eye

Album Rating: 4.5

...because it would totally go over their heads.



They'd equally tap their feet to Mr.November and ask which Killers album it appears on. What's your point?

Album Rating: 3.0

it's not 'challenging.' it might have depth but there's nothing that denies an average listener a barrier to entry

Album Rating: 3.0

"Pretty but not much more" could very well describe the entire album. A decent chunk of it isn't even that pretty either, just kind of exists. Idk guys i just don't get it.

Album Rating: 3.0

Agreed with toad, this is pretty damn accessible

Album Rating: 4.0

mr november is the best song they ever wrote and they are at their best when they actually have eneergy

I'd find this much easier to review as a 3 than a 4.5. I have tons of critiques swirling in my end but I just shrug after thinking it over cause I dig this

Album Rating: 4.5

No average radio listener could cope with anything here beyond 'Day I Die' and MAYBE 'The System'.



I mean it's accessible for your average reasonably open-minded indie listener but this is The National and by now indie fans would know the score with them.



Even then I think this album's lack of obvious immediacy would turn off a few of them too.

Album Rating: 4.5

I don't see this album as a friendly crowd pleaser at all. It's the dreaded 'arty'.

Album Rating: 3.0

i guess accessible is relative. Everyone i've met who listens to The National is a "reasonably open-minded indie listener" who listens to records far more challenging than The National.