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Universal acclaim- based on 303 Ratings
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Positive: 275 out of 303
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Mixed: 13 out of 303
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Negative: 15 out of 303
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High VioletYour Score0 out of 10User ScoreUniversal acclaim- based on 303 Ratings
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Oct 6, 2010I didn't like Bauhaus the first time around...and at least they had a better drummer. Mumblecore? Yes, that's about right. If this is "the best we have today" then the bar has been lowered drastically.
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Mar 16, 2011Overrated indie band. Obscure music for sad emo hipsters does not make for good music. The music is mediocre. The hype for this band is awful and pushed by cooler than thou hipsters all over the place.
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Dec 20, 2010The National's latest is easily up there with the very best indie-rock records of the year.
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Its charms are subtle, its grip soft and easily shrugged by those who choose to pay it only passing attention. Live with it a while, though, and High Violet rewards patience with songs that colour one's waking existence, becoming vivid night-time narratives when curtains are drawn.
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An easy grandeur is present throughout, as is a sense they are following an increasingly individual, carefully textured path. It is a wild, vivid romance that The National make their own, and on High Violet it sounds just as striking, just as wild, just as vivid as ever.