More on The National
Having not updated this for a fair few days, generally not much is going on, I do have one situation hanging over me which I'll probably post about when it's out of the way, sometime next week. But in the meantime I'll continue with my personal, evangelical, mission to get people to listen to The National. I mentioned them briefly having been to one of their concerts late last year but thought I'd go into a bit more detail.
The National are a five piece Indie-Alternative-Rock group from Brooklyn in the USA who play (believe it or not) Indie-Alternative-Rock music but with a hint of Folk thrown in. But don't let that put you off, it's more of an undertone and when you get into their stuff you'll really appreciate it. They've put out 3 full albums and an EP, the most recent album being Alligator which has been their most successful yet and got them relatively huge amounts of recognition.
One of the best things about them is there's a lot of variation within their songs, not in the way that you hate one song but love another, but in the way that compliments the other songs. Lyrically they're pretty depressing, failed love tends to be predominant but it's not put across in the typical predictable way - "I have weird memories of you, parking your car, you said, I'm overwhelmed."
Hardest thing about getting people into The National is finding one song that sums them up, nothing really can. I just tried to make a list of suggestions for National-virgins, it was around 15 songs long. If you head over to www.americanmary.com/music (official website) there are some songs available to download, Wasp's Nest and Cold Girl Fever probably sum them up best. For conveinience I've linked to them beneath. Some of my favourites by them are Lucky You, The Thrilling of Claire, American Mary and The Geese of Beverly Road.
So in essence, buy their stuff, any of it and you'll be glad you did.
Wasp Nest
Cold Girl Fever
Daughters of the Soho Riots (Video)
The National are a five piece Indie-Alternative-Rock group from Brooklyn in the USA who play (believe it or not) Indie-Alternative-Rock music but with a hint of Folk thrown in. But don't let that put you off, it's more of an undertone and when you get into their stuff you'll really appreciate it. They've put out 3 full albums and an EP, the most recent album being Alligator which has been their most successful yet and got them relatively huge amounts of recognition.
One of the best things about them is there's a lot of variation within their songs, not in the way that you hate one song but love another, but in the way that compliments the other songs. Lyrically they're pretty depressing, failed love tends to be predominant but it's not put across in the typical predictable way - "I have weird memories of you, parking your car, you said, I'm overwhelmed."
Hardest thing about getting people into The National is finding one song that sums them up, nothing really can. I just tried to make a list of suggestions for National-virgins, it was around 15 songs long. If you head over to www.americanmary.com/music (official website) there are some songs available to download, Wasp's Nest and Cold Girl Fever probably sum them up best. For conveinience I've linked to them beneath. Some of my favourites by them are Lucky You, The Thrilling of Claire, American Mary and The Geese of Beverly Road.
So in essence, buy their stuff, any of it and you'll be glad you did.
Wasp Nest
Cold Girl Fever
Daughters of the Soho Riots (Video)
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