I Am Easy to Find
by The National
  • Record Label: 4AD
  • Release Date: May 17, 2019
User Score
8.4

Universal acclaim- based on 129 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 112 out of 129
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 129
  3. Negative: 9 out of 129
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  1. muz
    May 23, 2019
    3
    I am (or was) a big fan of The National. If you've always wished The National was a vocal collaboration band, this is your album. It just doesn't work for me. Every track with a guest vocalist? Too much. I find it incoherent, inconsistent, too long and just hard to listen to. Maybe it'll grow on me. Probably not.
  2. P00PF4RT5
    Apr 30, 2021
    3
    Incredibly boring. Removing the hooks of the songs leaves them feeling long winded and drawn out. I wasn't a fan of sleep well beast but this one makes it look like the white album.

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#73 Most Discussed Album of 2019
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#76 Most Shared Album of 2019

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Metascore
81

Universal acclaim - based on 34 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 29 out of 34
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 34
  3. Negative: 0 out of 34
  1. PopMatters
    May 28, 2019
    80
    While the National have been transformed and enhanced by the tendrils of connection that have grown out into a wider world here with this bold and remarkable series of collaborations and joint ventures, they also remain their essential selves.
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  2. Variety
    May 22, 2019
    80
    By allowing their diligently designed blueprint to take a new, unexpected form, the National haven’t ceded the spotlight, only broadened it.
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  3. Sputnikmusic
    May 20, 2019
    94
    The centre of gravity around which they've always spun, the human heart of Berninger's lyrics that was always caked under middle-class anxiety and "quote-unquote upscale tropical funeral" surrealism, has never been easier to find. This tension between open-heartedness and discursive, tangential songwriting--let's call it the distance between simplicity and complexity, for closure's sake--is the paradox on which this album is built, and to that brilliant balancing act you can always return when it feels like it's losing the thread.
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