The National
We went to best buy last night to buy The National’s new album. Unfortunatly there was some kind of shipping mishap so they didn’t have it in yet. This morning I checked amazon to make sure it really came out (it did!) and read this review:
The first thing you’ll notice about this album is how slow it is. Only two songs, “Mistaken for Strangers” and “Apartment Story”, rock in any kind of recognizable way. Others like “Racing Like a Pro” and “Ada” barely resemble rock music at all. The band’s previous album, Alligator, was full of big rock songs and topped many critics and bloggers best of 2005 lists. This has largely been abandoned on the follow-up Boxer, a series of dark, mellow tracks, populated with low baritone vocals, horns, strings, pianos, etc.
I love the dark mellow tracks from Alligator and the more ‘rocking’ songs from Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers (their cd before Alligator) are just OK. But man I love the dark mellow tracks. I’m excited to get this album. I got a Best Buy gift certificate for my birthday and it’s been earmarked from day one for this album and the new Sage Francis (Human the Death Dance). So thats a great review (so far the album has a perfect 5 star rating, but for smaller indie albums with passionate fan bases thats not such a big deal).
Kim is probably really hoping I don’t get it before saturday: We’re driving to Flagstaff and I don’t think she’s ready for 4 hours worth of the National.
ps The Sage Francis album is very good.
You are right. I’m not ready for that. To balance it out, how about we throw in some Sandra Boynton for Kyra and Erasure for me?
I call bullshit: I don’t think you could even listen to an hour of erasure at this point.
And I like the crab song.