The National

yeah, /mu/ pretty much hates them... Too boring I guess.
I like them, specially for High Violet, but I kinda think their shit is style over sustance, relying too much on Matt's (amazing) voice and the drums, which are great.

>>72580070
>their shit is style over sustance

what do you mean by that?

currently listening to Boxer, the lyrics are pretty great imo, and as for Matt's vocal and the drums, yeah, they are pretty great like you said

>>72579743
I like them but I never see them posted
I can't think of any reason why /mu/ would hate them though. They're one of the better "chamber pop" bands.

>>72579743
High Violet was all over /mu/...6 years ago?

>believing /mu/ is an authority in music

Don't fall for the meme, kid!

/mu/core includes In The Aeroplane Over The Sea and American Football, and the only way for a person to think those albums are the greatest of anything is by having been 18 years old between 1995 and 2001

Fact is that /mu/ is full of thirty year old people full of nostalgia, that miss their teenage summer days, that are represented by those albums

/mu/ is basically Richard Linklater: the board

>>72581378
there are worst things on this site than /mu/ btw

>>72581378
OP here
but In The Aeroplane Over The Sea IS a great album

also I know it's not /tv/, but what is wrong with Linklater?!

also see >>72581389
this

stop hating a board you actually use on a regular basis, stop being an edgy 12 yo contrarian

>>72581592
Nothing wrong with Linklater, but his films rely heavily on nostalgia, just like In the Aeroplane Over The Sea and American Football

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>>72579743
they're shite

because they are fucking awful?

/mu/ talks about The National plenty when there's a new album.

High Violet > Boxer > Trouble Will Find Me > Alligator > Sad Songs

>>72581378
ITAOTS is good, retard

Any news on a new album?

>>72582086
It is, but it is not as great as /mu/ says

7/10

>>72582381
"no"

Boxer / High Violet / Trouble Will Find Me
is a great trilogy.

Hope for a new album this year

I love The National, but the fact is they are a "boring" band. Their genius lies in the subtleties, and even reveling in that kind of dull, lethargic mood they capture really well. A lot of stuff that /mu/ as a collective nowadays seems to favor has some outwardly notable sonic or structural characteristic. Which isn't to say theres anything wrong with that, but I do think it shows a bit of a shallow appreciation of music when other artists with more traditional approaches are wholly discounted just for being "boring".

New album when? I swear I've seen like fifty p4k headlines about various National members involved in other people's side projects

>>72580070
>style over substance
>The National has no substance

god damn dude
the lyrics are incredible if you're a lonely 20-something and while the songwriting can get dull if you marathon their material, theyve got plenty of standout tracks

>>72579743
/mu/ hates them because Fantano hates them

trouble will find me is a masterpiece

>>72582522
>while the songwriting can get dull if you marathon their material

true, but who marathons one genre whole day anyway?!

>>72583670
High Violet > rest
imo

>>72579743
Boxer was /mu/-core at one point.

High Violet is a good album, but their most recent release sounds like they've stagnated.