- publishko
- Feb 16, 2014
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After a full listen I think it's a really really good album with only one weak track (Empire Line). That one may grow on me too so who knows.
If I had one complaint it's that it's just kinda... more of the same from The National. Not a big deal and good on them for doing what they do best. But at some point I'd like to see them try something a little different.
I feel like Turtleneck is kind of the seed of that so who knows.
they apparently have a bunch of other more aggressive songs they wrote in the wake of the election that they decided not to put on the record, opting for a more meditative and introspective sound, so you might be right
source: http://www.thedailybeast.com/the-national-learn-to-cope-with-the-trump-era?source=TDB&via=FB_Page
quote:The National recorded approximately 15 other song sketches for Beast, many of which feature the band playing together in punk-inspired fashion as a visceral reaction to the, er, national mood leading up to election.
“The funny thing is, when Trump won everything changed: the awareness of who we are as a nation, I think, suddenly shifted. A light went on for a lot of people. ‘Oh, we are in bad shape. The soul of our country is very ill,’” Berninger says. “We had no idea how ill we are. In a lot of ways, I felt the record needed to get more sensitive.”
Those outraged songs were put aside as the band gravitated towards more meditative ones. “We had to turn the dial in a different direction,” Berninger says. “I felt there was a need to go inward and go into more of a dreamlike state, and process it from a weird, emotionally internal place first, before I can package an idea of what the gently caress is happening. I can’t do that yet.”
Maybe next time. Aaron Dessner says the band is interested in possibly finishing and releasing those songs when Berninger is ready.
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