I'm sitting here alone at 3:07am listening to The National through my headphones and thinking that I wouldn't want to be anywhere else. I don't know what else there is to say about this band that hasn't been said before - by me. I don't like cults but I'd gladly belong to any cult that had a gentleman with Matt Berninger's voice at the helm. This is otherworldly stuff. My words can't describe what this music is, it needs to be honored in a way my 24 year old brain can't even comprehend. I'm not worthy of this brilliant work - none of us are. I don't know how it's possible.
I'm not even drunk.
I don't know how they created this masterpiece. This is better than Tom Petty's "Wildflowers", my favorite album of all time.
For a more comprehensive review: http://musicmavens.blogspot.com/2010/05/listen-to-this-national-high-violet.html
Favorite tracks so far: Lemonworld, Conversation 16, Runaway, Anyone's Ghost, Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks .... and that's already half of the album.
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