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DoofusWainwright
June 18th 2018


19991 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

They did play it when I watched them last year. It was awful in a live setting, good one to leave out imo. The title track also made zero sense played live.

Sowing
Moderator
December 31st 2018


43943 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

I'd be so pissed if they played most of the songs from this and left off Destroy You. Such an amazing track and the melody seems like it would be a hit live, with that chorus. I dunno.



Also this album has sneakily become tied with HV as my favorite National. Is that blasphemy?

Gyromania
December 31st 2018


37016 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

hv is so damn boring outside of like 3 rly good songs. same with this. their two weakest albums imo, not counting their first 2. nothing can touch alligator, boxer, and trouble

Sowing
Moderator
December 31st 2018


43943 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Alligator would be my #3, Boxer is the only one that bores me. It might have something to do with the fact that HV was the first album I heard by these guys, so I associate them with the sleepy vibes and heartbroken murmers.

Lucman
December 31st 2018


5537 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

This was my first National and I ended up going backwards through their discog. Boxer took the longest to grow on me but it edges closer to a 5 every time I hear it.

Faraudo
December 31st 2018


4605 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

This one slowly became my second favorite National album.

luci
December 31st 2018


12844 Comments


Trouble is the only National record I love this decade, their best for me.

Zeuzo
December 31st 2018


2344 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Trouble is among their best for sure. Can’t decide if Trouble or HV is their best, they switch places often

theBoneyKing
December 31st 2018


24386 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

Best band on the planet agreed?

luci
December 31st 2018


12844 Comments


they're the best boring band. leagues above grizzly bear and real estate

TalonsOfFire
Emeritus
December 31st 2018


20969 Comments

Album Rating: 4.4 | Sound Off

HV is gonna remain best of the decade and this will be like fourth or fifth best. Unless 2019 produces a modern classic, who knows.

Flashmobba
December 31st 2018


1966 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I'll still destroy you is one of their best



agreed or nay

Clumseee
January 5th 2019


1815 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Not as good as Guilty Party but yes it's pretttttty up there.

JohnnyoftheWell
Staff Reviewer
January 5th 2019


60285 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

YAY best song on the album

theBoneyKing
January 6th 2019


24386 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

I love “I’ll Still Destroy You” but wouldn’t call it one of my favorites here, it doesn’t hit me in the feels quite like a lot of the others do.

Gyromania
January 6th 2019


37016 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

yeah idk, i came around to this album but a lot of times when i put it on it's just meh. can't be bothered listening to all of it, only a few tracks. same applies to hv though, which is the most overrated album on sputnik

Sowing
Moderator
January 6th 2019


43943 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Destroy You is one of their best ever

TalonsOfFire
Emeritus
January 6th 2019


20969 Comments

Album Rating: 4.4 | Sound Off

Dark Side of the Gym and Destroy You are my two favs

theBoneyKing
January 6th 2019


24386 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

The top tier for me is “Dark Side of the Gym” (one of their very best ever), “Day I Die”, and “Guilty Party”, those are the 5/5s. The rest fill out the album at a pretty equal level of amazing with “Turtleneck” being the only distinctly weaker one.

Sowing
Moderator
January 6th 2019


43943 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Dark Side of the Gym and Day I Die are my next favorites, although I'll throw in Guilty Party and the t/t as deserving of being in the same tier. Damn this is getting dangerously close to being as good as High Violet. I honestly don't know which is my #1 National.



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