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| 3.0 good | doofy | September 18th 23 |
My childhood pet dog had a stroke but she rallied for about another 6 months and you could take her on a walk, a last
hurrah, a chance to say goodbye to an enfeebled version of an old friend who you knew still didn’t have long. The
National are a favourite pet, looking long in the tooth, they too had a collective stroke earlier in the year and have
bounced back at about 50% strength - but the next stroke will finish them and you know it isn’t long
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| 4.0 excellent | Benjamin Kuettel EMERITUS | September 18th 23 |
The National quickly release a follow-up to what is widely considered their weakest album since the debut, First Two Pages of Frankenstein from earlier this year. Laugh Track is a far more inspired, ambitious, and instrumentally layered record that proves they haven't lost it after all, their best since Sleep Well Beast. They even learned how to handle features on here, I guess third time's the charm. Highlights are Alphabet City, Weird Goodbyes, Laugh Track, Space Invader, and Smoke Detector.
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| 4.0 excellent | Comatorium. | September 18th 23 |
I truly hate this site these days. Anyway, best national album in a decade.
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| 2.5 average | Gene Gol-Jonsson CONTRIBUTOR | September 18th 23 |
The audience at large flipped a coin again and decided that this new boring-ass National album is actually a good boring-ass National album as opposed to their last boring-ass National album, which was a not good boring-ass National album. Cannot wait for the next one to receive scathing reviews for all the same reasons this one will receive praise.
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| 2.7 average | Erwann S. STAFF | September 21st 23 |
The National kinda but not really abandon the TayTay-approved sad indie aesthetic they've been championing in the past two albums for either a darker sound (that they already nailed on Sleep Well Beast) or a one-off americana track that shows much more potential than anything else they've released in the past 5 years. It's something. It's a consistent record, with less lows (and highs) than I Am Easy to Find, but that's the only thing that allows it to be hailed as "best National in a fucking while", if that even is a thing.
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| 5.0 classic | terriblekonrad | January 14th 24 |
I'm the only one. This was the highest anticipated record for the years for me.
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| 3.0 good | lz41 | September 26th 23 |
This is about as perfunctory as a National album can get while still being an enjoyable listen. Best tracks: 'Space Invader', 'Dreaming', 'Hornets'
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| 4.5 superb | alexslavco | September 18th 23 |
Fantastic album, tracks 9 and 10 are the only fillers (they are not bad, but album would
have nicer flow without them). Deep End and Smoke Detector are total killers. Also, GO HOME
Pikazilla, you are drunk!
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| 4.5 superb | RadioNew03 | September 18th 23 |
Alright alright alright!! The National quickly redeem themselves after a minor bump in the road I?m glad this album was also released in 2023 because the quality difference between this and first two pages?is unreal!!
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| 4.5 superb | SheFilmsTheClouds | September 18th 23 |
Smoke detector smoke detector all you need to do is protect her smoke detector smoke detector smoke detector
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| 4.5 superb | Faraudo | September 18th 23 |
I genuinely don't understand why there's such a massive gap in quality between Two Pages and
this lmao, but I'm glad we got it the same year
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| 3.0 good | Nrap | May 26th 24 |
| 3.5 great | iGuter | February 27th 24 |
| 3.5 great | rooby | February 18th 24 |
| 3.4 great | A.R.O. STAFF | January 15th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | Zeuzo | December 30th 23 |
| 3.0 good | Veldin | December 9th 23 |
| 2.5 average | solrage | November 23rd 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | cb123 | November 21st 23 |
| 2.5 average | mikep87 | November 10th 23 |
| 3.0 good | btrfs | November 8th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | furpa | October 30th 23 |
| 3.0 good | Spec | October 23rd 23 |
| 3.0 good | John L | October 16th 23 |
| 2.0 poor | Slex | October 8th 23 |
| 3.5 great | Xhoven | October 1st 23 |
| 3.0 good | wojodta | September 27th 23 |
| 3.0 good | jmh886 | September 26th 23 |
| 3.0 good | Asura14 | September 26th 23 |
| 3.0 good | aroge | September 25th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Dylan620 | September 25th 23 |
| 3.0 good | tom79 | September 25th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | karlulol | September 23rd 23 |
| 3.0 good | anat CONTRIBUTOR | September 23rd 23 |
| 3.5 great | Rmazer | September 23rd 23 |
| 2.0 poor | rc239 | September 22nd 23 |
| 3.0 good | mallen- | September 22nd 23 |
| 3.5 great | Strills | September 21st 23 |
| 3.0 good | alamo | September 21st 23 |
| 2.5 average | fog CONTRIBUTOR | September 21st 23 |
| 3.5 great | Matty CONTRIBUTOR | September 20th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Sowing STAFF | September 19th 23 |
| 3.8 excellent | Sunnyvale STAFF | September 19th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | sevencif | September 18th 23 |
| 2.0 poor | jtswope | September 18th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | vakuola | September 18th 23 |
| 3.0 good | Lassie | September 18th 23 |
| 3.5 great | Lakes | September 18th 23 |
| 4.5 superb | Adam | September 18th 23 |
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