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Artist Name: NATIONAL, THE
Selection Title: High Violet
Label Description:
High Violet, the new full-length record by the National, is a nervy, melodic, explosive and beautiful set of songs that find the band at the height of their collaborative powers. The music is wide-ranging in its moods, by turns intimate and rough, expansive and spare, full of stark angles and atmosphere. Berninger's singing—wild, half-broken, sly—evokes a feeling of being haunted, by love, by paranoia, by something just out of reach. High Violet may be The National's most thematically twisted record to date but it somehow also manages to be their most infectious and immediate.
MUZE Notes:
After securing critical approval with albums like Alligator and Boxer, the National reprise their relationship with producer Peter Katis for the muscled, melancholic High Violet.
Street Date: 5/11/2010
Label: 4AD
Order Ref: 7.2.A 73003
UPC: 652637300321
List Price: 14.98
Format:
CD A
Track Listing:
1.Terrible Love
2.Sorrow
3.Anyone's Ghost
4.Little Faith
5.Afraid of Everyone
6.Bloodbuzz Ohio
7.Lemonworld
8.Runaway
9.Conversation 16
10.England
11.Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks
MUZE review: Mojo (Publisher) (p.104) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]hey fill the erstwhile emptiness with distorting guitars, strings, brass, keyboards: an ambient tangle."
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A Skin, A Night + The Virginia(DX)
Alligator (CD)
Alligator (A )
Bloodbuzz Ohio (S )
Boxer (A )
Boxer (CD)
Cherry Tree Ep (CD)
Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers (A )
Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers (CD)
The National (A )
The National (CD)