The National - Alligator
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Free Music Review: It's good.........really good.
Hit: 4 Stars
How best to describe Brooklyn quintet The National's music? Alt Country? Americana? Alternative Rock? or just good old straight-up guitar driven rock 'n' roll. Is that shades of Wilco, Tindersticks, The Doors, Willard Grant Conspiracy and Luna I hear?
To be honest I'm not entirely sure how to classify the sound coming forth from my speakers other than to say that their new album Alligator is categorically, uniformly superb.
This is music better experienced than defined, so I won't wax lyrical about it's many virtues other than to say if you consider yourself an adventurous music listener, Alligator will repay your curiosity in spades.
Free Music Review: Grows on you
Hit: 4 Stars
When I first got this CD I thought it was just puffery and couldn't get into it. Today it clicked for me and I haven't stopped listening to it, though I can't quite say why. This group needs to watch their step... they're dangerously close to having their music overwhelmed by that chic, hip and... empty ooze that sticks to many irksome indie bands when they get attention. I guess it's about not being too clever for their own good, staying humble enough to take risks and especially not pursuing polish for its own sake or, worse, cultivating an absence of polish for its own sake. Get it?Free Music Review: The National are amazing
Hit: 4 Stars
The album's great, but even better live (saw them in Warsaw, Brooklyn, w/ CYHSY). You can listen to this over and over again. If you've never heard them, visit their site, AmericanMary.com, and download some songs first. Then buy a CD. I like Cherry Tree a little better than this one, which is not to say I don't love this one.Free Music Review: This basement is full of idiots
Hit: 1 Stars
If by alligator you mean shell-shocked bacon strip of a reptile writhing lazily in a puddle, then yes, of course. It would have been nice if the studio manager had gotten some protein shakes into these fellows before they started recording. Yawn et cetera. Gawd, I feel like I'm back in Latin 101, lorded over by Bobo the Inneffective, his voice a loutish baritone, hairs filling every orifice and pore, forehead slathered in sweat, brow hairs pointing downward in an accusatory manner.
Let me ask you a question: Do you like the idea of that guy who does the annoying voiceovers for car commercials fronting a band making music with what sound like Tonka toys? Matt Berninger makes the dude from Crash Test Dumbasses sound like the Velvet Frog. Is that McBrianEno wheezing in the background? Ben & Jerry hang-gliding and popping horse tranks, colostomy bags flapping in the breeze like hyperactive moths bathed in bulbs.