Album Rating: 3.7

imo



Top Tier National:

You Had Your Soul

Quiet Light

The Pull of You

I Am Easy to Find

Where Is Her Head

So Far So Fast

Rylan

Light Years



Good but has problems:

Oblivions

Hey Rosey

Hairpin Turns

Not In Kansas (too long but the piano parts are incredible)



Bad:

Roman Holiday

Dust Swirls

the interludes that have no business being on here

Album Rating: 4.0

I agree that slew of nonstop midtempo numbers from 2-7 is the major weakness here, if you cut out Holiday, Rosey, and Pull the album would be just over 50 minutes overall and would probably flow even better, I could forgive even the interludes and “Dust Swirls” in that case.

Album Rating: 4.0

Actually, I think I figured out the big problem in the sequencing: Too many of these songs sound like late album tracks. I keep on thinking about how I would move things around but the problem is I want almost everything closer to the end.

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

'Top Tier National:



You Had Your Soul'



Oh boy

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

'Too many of these songs sound like late album tracks.'



It's that same 'every song with an epic finale coda and fade with strings and cooing wordless vocals and slowly deconstructing drums' problem.



It's an addiction - blame the Dessner's and their pesky soundtrack ways.

Great review, Rudy. I haven't been able to check out much of this yet, but the samples sound promising. Maybe reminiscent of Boxer?

Album Rating: 4.0

think oblivions is pretty easily my soty so far

Album Rating: 3.0

It’s sad that Local Natives released a (very solid) album a few weeks ago and it got 1/3rd the attention this is getting.



What’s this have to do with The National you say? Leave me alone.

Album Rating: 4.0

i listened to local natives once and thought they were p fucking boring

Album Rating: 3.5

Nah the new Local Natives is pretty nice



Not on the same plane as this, but very much worthwhile

Album Rating: 4.2

“Pull Of You” is maybe their worst song ever

Album Rating: 2.5

pull of you bores me but worst song? naw. kansas is a contender for top 10 worst national songs tho

Album Rating: 3.0

Definitely enjoyed this album quite a bit, but its nonetheless a real letdown considering who made it. It's no Boxer that's for sure.

Album Rating: 4.0

Rowan, I track rated this on RYM, right now I put Pull as a 2/5, the last six albums there’s not a single other song I rate below 3.5/5. The debut I remember being average but I don’t think it had anything poor. Maybe I’m being harsh but for now Pull seems a major turd by Natty standards.

I'm so over this band tbh, their sound is only good for 2-3 albums after that it just sounds recycled.

Album Rating: 3.5

It's better than boxer

Album Rating: 3.0

Gotta agree with Boney’s take on Pull of You. Structurally and sonically it’s so unsatisfying.

Album Rating: 3.5

"Pull of You" is tentatively my favorite here...!



The messiness scratches an itch for me I guess

Album Rating: 3.5

Yeah was just gonna say, Pull isn't that bad at all

found one thing that doesn’t work for me: the vocal pause in “hey rosey” is quite aggravating. rest of the record is the smoothest pleasure