Boxer

The National - Boxer

Boxer
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Artist: The National
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-05-22
Music Label: Beggars Banquet
Soundtracks:
  1. Fake Empire
  2. Mistaken For Strangers
  3. Brainy
  4. Squalor Victoria
  5. Green Gloves
  6. Slow Show
  7. Apartment Story
  8. Start a War
  9. Guest Room
  10. Racing Like a Pro
  11. ADA
  12. Gospel

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Free Music Review: Fantastic work
Hit: 5 Stars

This is an excellent album. Beautiful, haunting lyrics combined with a melancholy voice make this CD one that you will listen to over and over and over again. The closest thing I can compare it to is Bon Iver's For Emma, but much more polished.

I have suggested this album to a number of friends and each person comes back saying how much they love it. A very solid album throughout, I highly recommend it.

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The 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.
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 Bartlett

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