Below you will find pages that utilize the taxonomy term “The National”
December 28, 2023
2023 Albums of the Year #4: The National, "First Two Pages of Frankenstein" and "Laugh Track"
Two new albums? And they’re both better than the last one? And now with added Taylor Swift? You spoil us!
September 30, 2017
Album Digest, September 2017
Note: Recent months have been very busy, so this album digest combines a review of the new album by The National with a couple of reviews left over from earlier in the year.
I’ve written a few more album reviews in the past months but I’m so far behind (February and March have already been published on a considerable lag) that I’m just going to pepper forthcoming digests with additional reviews of older albums.
May 31, 2013
Album Digest, May 2013
Lilacs & Champagne Danish & Blue You might remember that last year I reviewed the first Lilacs & Champagne album and I liked it a lot. This album sees them back with more of the same: taking the approach that if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. There are very few changes to the formula apart from the fact that the spoken word samples are not quite as good this time and there’s a bit more Grails-like guitar solo action.