The National – High Violet (2-LP Vinyl)
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High Violet arrived in May 2010 and quietly reshaped what a lot of people thought indie rock could carry emotionally. The Cincinnati-bred, Brooklyn-based band had been building toward this kind of open-sky sound since Alligator, and here the orchestral arrangements and Aaron Dessner's layered guitar work push Matt Berninger's baritone into genuinely unsettling territory, the kind of late-night anxiety that feels uncomfortably familiar.
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.
Tracklist
Side A
Side B
Side C
Side D
UPC: 652637300314
Label: 4ad
Release Date: 5.11.10
Format: LP Vinyl