two of those songs are superb and slipped is great too.

Album Rating: 5.0

I'm falling in love with this album the more I listen to it. Could well be up there with their last 3 but only time will tell.



But goddamn Berninger rules on this!

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nah. the more i watch him, the more i'm convinced he just likes going against trending indie bands.

hellacious

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yay lakes 5'ed woohoo aoty woohoo 2nd best national also i just 5'ed high violet the national are too good

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no way



i did an entire collage for a college acting class about adolescent angst comprised entirely of the national lyrics and photos of angsty teenagers. it was at that moment that i realized that my unremitting love for the band was probably soon ending.



they just perpetuate the idea of adolescent misery and being that i now no longer find myself in any such place i just cant relate. i still love the art behind the lyrics and enjoy some of the landscapes, but like many others my "love affair" with the band is over



they havent changed, but i have

Great album.

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loving Alligator more and more all the time, probs 5'ing it soon. HV is still the ultimate classic by this band for me, this is a close second atm

cant decide what to give this

then give it more time instead of rating everything on first listen proggy ;) :P.

the national's lyrics are more about the misery that adults face, especially on the last 3 or 4 releases

Album Rating: 4.0

Yeah I don't see much adolescence in it

i dont rate on first listen but ok

Album Rating: 3.0

demons and slipped are awfully boring, but the rest is awesome. loving humiliation and pink rabbits.

lol Craig I was messing with you.

Album Rating: 3.0

I don't get any adolescent misery out of this at all. I see the mood as from the perspective of an adult facing the gloom of aging, and sometimes yearning for the days when things were more simple.

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"demons and slipped are awfully boring, but the rest is awesome. loving humiliation and pink rabbits."



why does everyone hate Demons? it's amazing. agreed with the rest of this comment though

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Slipped I can see why but Demons is fantastic.

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yeah Slipped is easily the worst on this album. pretty much everything else here rules

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you people are confusing being a teenager with being adolescent. you can be a fifty year old adolescent. the period of adolescence is the period of identity formation, which the national project a lot of fear about in all of their albums.