The National - Boxer
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Artist: The NationalEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-05-22
Music Label: Beggars Banquet
Soundtracks:
- Fake Empire
- Mistaken For Strangers
- Brainy
- Squalor Victoria
- Green Gloves
- Slow Show
- Apartment Story
- Start a War
- Guest Room
- Racing Like a Pro
- ADA
- Gospel
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Free Music Review: A Great Grower of an Album
Hit: 4 Stars
The National really grabbed my attention with this latest release. Upon initial listens only a few tracks stuck out to me, but something kept me coming back for more. Perhaps it was the production by Peter Katis (whom also works with Interpol); or the very well written lyrics; or just the singer's somber baritone. Whatever it was, Boxer really opened up upon repeated listens. This is the best album I've heard in quite some time. Most of the tunes flow along effortlessly to a mellow vibe. The songs are very well arranged and very well performed. Somewhat dark, somewhat pensive, yet refreshing and comforting in a strange way. You're sure to find yourself singing these songs in your head after a few spins. I'd also recommend picking up the single, Mistaken For Strangers. The two b-sides on it are excellent, even if the price tag is a little hefty.
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With Boxer, the National have reached four albums into their increasingly lauded career, never hurrying the tempo, never over-reaching in volume or instrumental density. Instead, the quintet's balanced on a pin, emotionally austere, if not utterly downhearted, finding brilliantly dusky ways for Matt Berninger's lovelorn voice to mesh with a pair of unobtrusive guitars and, here, an occasional phalanx of piano, horns, and strings. The tunes roll off slowly, Berninger's lyrics hugging the instruments with a sad brawn, rough-hewn as the drums and bass toy with angularity (try "Mistaken for Strangers," for one) but end up woven by that voice. Drummer Bryan Devendorf presses the songs forward repeatedly, as on "Start a War," where he gently thumps the time as the acoustic guitars frame and dot the melody, coalescing as the drums starkly chisel the melody. Nary a distortion pedal is harmed on Boxer, giving the National a magnetism so forlorn that you can't stop listening. --Andrew BartlettThe follow-up to 2005's "Alligator" is filled with lush arrangements and sees the band incorporating new instrumentation and expanded musical elements such as piano, trumpet, and more prominent background vocals.
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