The National - Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers
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Artist: The NationalEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-09-02
Music Label: Brassland Records
Soundtracks:
- Cardinal Song
- Slipping Husband
- 90-Mile Water Wall
- It Never Happened
- Murder Me Rachael
- Thirsty
- Available
- Sugar Wife
- Trophy Wife
- Fashion Coat
- Patterns of Fairytales
- Lucky You
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Free Music Review: Not Quite There
Hit: 4 Stars
The National's second CD shows a band in development. Short of the peak achieved in Alligator and Boxer (with still higher peaks to come, I hope), Songs still gives lots of value. The best cuts -- Murder Me Rachel and the final four songs -- pull all the band's strengths together, voice, lyrics, focused and direct instrumentation in both the raucous (Rachel) and introspective (Lucky You) moods that the band inhabits. Hurt humor also abounds (Trophy Wives). The two big drawbacks here: many of the songs just sort of amble off, with a last minute or so of not so interesting instrumentation. Trophy Wives has this problem. Compare it to the next cut, Fashion Coat, where conciseness at just over two minutes increases its power. The National also hadn't yet fully learned in Sad how to use drums to drive its lyric passion and desperation. By Alligator (think Abel and Lit Up), they had, big time.
One last thought -- Lucky You, with its sneaky and scary irony and obsession, was a first listen sleeper that by the next few times I'd been through the CD sounded like the best thing on it.
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For a band that's been compared to Joy Division, Leonard Cohen, Wilco, and Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, the National sure sounds a lot more like the Czars or Uncle Tupelo on this sophomore album Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers. The band focuses on slow atmospheric songs, it's when it kicks out the jams that the music is the most compelling.. With so many influences rearing their heads and ample musical chops in the bag, the National might not be masters of any one genre, but it creates a fine amalgam nonetheless. Brassland. 2003.Alternative Rock Music CDs
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