High Violet
- The National
- Band Name: The National
- Record Label: 4AD
- Release Date: May 11, 2010
- Summary: The band and Peter Katis produced the Brooklyn-based rock quintet's fifth full-length album.
- Record Label: 4AD
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 33 out of 36
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Mixed: 3 out of 36
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Negative: 0 out of 36
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100The National should give faith to anyone who has become disillusioned with indie music, anyone who misses a time where it didn't seem like all the musicians thought they were better than you and you could actually relate to the damn words they were singing. High Violet is another batch of cement to further supplement The National's already unshakable concrete career.
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It's exceptionally crafted, it's gorgeously composed and it's remarkably rendered by a band that might just be the very best we have today.
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Goddamn it's taken a while, but with 'High Violet' The National's slow and steady evolution can no longer be ignored. This lot are fully grown-up, coloured in and going overground.
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60Bleak as you like, but strangely cathartic in many places, it's absolutely the worst album to soundtrack your Christmas lottery win. For the rest of us dour wageslaves, it's perfect.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 57 out of 61
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Mixed: 2 out of 61
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Negative: 2 out of 61
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