Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off
Maybe Matt went camping had the squits and all he had to hand was a copy of Frankenstein - first two pages to the rescue
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Album Rating: 3.5
bro copied his comment onto the next page to give it more time in the spotlight
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Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off
I’ve been in the game a while ye
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Album Rating: 3.0
I am worried for me, too.
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Album Rating: 4.0
I've heard a lot of Greg Dulli in Matt's lyrics since I started listening to the Whigs and now I feel validated
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Album Rating: 4.0
This is the first time I've been worried about a new National album, with First Two Pages. The singles have been mostly bland; even Tropic Morning News (my favourite) isn't as good as Rylan/Light Years/System/Day I Die/Carin/Guilty Party
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Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound Off
"I've heard a lot of Greg Dulli in Matt's lyrics since I started listening to the Whigs"
Unrelated, but I wish Matt would stop namedropping bands, the lyrics feel so lazy now
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Album Rating: 4.0
"Big Star are doing Don't Worry Baby"
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Album Rating: 3.5
Eucalyptus could have been a much better song if they didn’t go for that wack repetitive lyric scheme that punishes repeat listens
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Album Rating: 2.5
Heavily agreed tbh, has some traces of the TWFM magic but squanders them tae fuck
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Album Rating: 3.5
yeah I'm still somewhat optimistic based on the strengths of that one + Tropic Morning News which is pretty great all around imo. I also like New Order T Shirt but it goes for this super flaccid "climax" at the end that does not work, and Your Mind Is Not Your Friend is just not very good
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Album Rating: 4.0
Checking this now and it’s much better than I expected. Might be better than TWFM.
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I actually like the new one just a little bit more than this weird bore fest
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Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off
This being a long slog doesn’t help but just listen to:
Quiet Light, Rylan, Light Years
That three song EP destroys the new one
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Rylan is indeed great, will revisit this today so I can compare both.. hope I don’t fall asleep tho
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Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off
The songs are so overproduced on this though ugh, re-listening now, at least that’s been improved on the new one
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Album Rating: 4.0
I haven’t given this a full relisten in a couple years, but I found myself skipping every song that came up from it when shuffling the National discog recently (though none of the three Doof just mentioned came up). It’s probably more of a 3.5 but it does have the three 5/5 tracks that pull it up.
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Album Rating: 2.5
That's still a stretch imo, Rylan would have been B-tier on HV and y'all clutching
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Album Rating: 3.5
I think Quiet Light is the only song I come back to, but I'd have to check the tracklist again which feels like effort
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Album Rating: 2.5
Honestly, Quiet Light and Light Years are such autopilot National (as is Rylan tbh) that in a gun-to-head consume three songs scenario I'd honestly choose Where Is Her Head and Not In Kansas for at least trying to bring something new to the table. Former two are probably 'better' in some senses but they're also far more representative of the band's creative decline, and since that already had its grip on this record to a practically morbid degree, I'd let them go
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