Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
Dan I suggest you leave this one on the backburner for now and go back to Alligator/Boxer and work your way back to this, this is really not an ideal intro to the band.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Boxer is definitely the best place to start
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Album Rating: 4.5
Title track has grown on me the most so far
sleep well beast, you as well beast
I'll still destroy you some day
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Album Rating: 4.5
I agree with Boney
The National albums always grow. When I first heard High Violet I hated it.
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
Title track is a 5/5, I kinda ignored it at first, but there's a lot to it.
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Album Rating: 4.4 | Sound Off
Getting a lot of 22, A Million, Skeleton Tree/Push The Sky Away, and general newer Sufjan vibes on this. The National are as responsible as anyone for those influences though, so it's cool to see them giving those sounds a try on this. Radiohead too, of course.
Did you look at my "Recommended by reviewer" section before typing this? If not then I feel very validated by my picks haha
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Album Rating: 4.0
cant get into this :/ this vocalist sounds like the complacent sort of sad, and his lyrics too
tried boxer but couldnt get into that either
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Album Rating: 3.5
Ya this is gonna be a grower. After the first listen I'm not impressed. Not that its bad, just that its kind of average. The song Turtleneck is awful
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Album Rating: 4.4 | Sound Off
Keep trying with Boxer, and maybe High Violet too (that's their most upbeat). I couldn't get this band for months but my friend kept egging me on to keep trying, and once it clicked it was amazing.
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
Yeah Flash this is a band you have to live with for a good while before you love them.
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Album Rating: 4.0
man i played dark side of the gym right before working out expecting something heavy and mezzanine-ish lmao
really nice stuff though
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
At this point I think the most damning thing about this album is that it's just made me want to listen to their other albums
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Album Rating: 4.0
Liking a good deal already and it will inevitably grow big time
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
Has anybody read the feature American Songwriter put up a few days ago? Some really interesting insights into the band's songwriting strategies there, especially the bit about the relationship between Guilty Party and the title track.
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Album Rating: 4.5
I'll have to check that out, sounds like a good toilet read
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
Lmao because, I shit you not, I literally read it on the toilet XD
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Album Rating: 3.0
turtleneck is one of the worst songs theyve ever written wtf
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
It definitely feels out of place here but I like it, the lyrics are great and clearly it's not supposed to be taken totally seriously, there is a tongue firmly placed in cheek there.
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Album Rating: 4.0
ayyyy just bumped it to a 4.2
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^ what Boney said [2]
Came totally out of the blue tho. They haven't done a song like that in ages and now suddenly we get their noisiest, most brazen take yet
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