Post Tagged with: "High Violet"
Listen: The National – Exile Vilify
The National give us yet more ‘extras’ with Exile Vilify – a soft, sweeping ballad with a twirling piano motif. Strings are very much in.
Top 10 of 2010 – No. 3
The National’s star continues its slow rise with another album of breathtaking quality. Their most direct record to date also gives us an intriguing glimpse into where they could go next.
Download: The National – Terrible Love (Alternate Version)
Anyone who watched The National’s booming run-through of Terrible Love on the Jimmy Fallon show back in March – a few months prior to High Violet’s release – may have been forgiven for being ever-so dissapointed with the muddy, tightly packed production of the studio version. Well that minor gripe has now been put to [...]
The National – Afraid of Everyone MP3
As promised, i’m keeping you right up-to-date with The National’s upcoming record High Violet. So far we’ve covered Bloodbuzz Ohio, Terrible Love and Runaway and now, for your aural pleasure here is Afraid of Everyone, which will be track five on the album. On first listen it’s a brooding, building number with a (whisper it) [...]
The National’s ‘Terrible Love’
As detailed a week or so ago (here), The National are a mere two months away from releasing the follow up to 2007’s Boxer. Up until recently there was little from High Violet to get stuck into – despite the fact that the band have been playing Runaway live for almost a year now – [...]
The National announce ‘High Violet’
If you don’t have The National in your life, you simply aren’t living yet. It is due to their mind boggling brilliance that the announcement of their new release High Violet has got me just a tad excited. Released here in the UK on May 10th and internationally on May 11th, High Violet will be [...]
