The National
Alligator LP vinyl

On The National third album and first for Beggars Banquet Matt Berninger's potent baritone still intones about matters fraught and funny and sad; about record collections, missing persons and medium-sized american hearts. But the records not simply gothic or miserablist - more like the plays of Tennessee Williams, its full of peculiar intimacies and awkward grace. Alligator's heroes are reckless and possessed seducers, but they are apologetic ones. In The National's imaginings, in songs alternately lush and spare, there is something twilit and dreamy worked out in the basement of our brains. It has the bravado of Leonard Cohen and a spare elegance unheard since the triffids.

Produs Nou / Anul aparitiei: 2005

Tracklist:

A1 Secret Meeting

A2 Karen

A3 Lit Up

A4 Looking For Astronauts

A5 Daughters Of The Soho Riots

A6 Baby, We'll Be Fine

A7 Friend Of Mine

B1 Val Jester

B2 All The Wine

B3 Abel

B4 The Geese Of Beverly Road

B5 City Middle

B6 Mr. November