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Universal acclaim- based on 129 Ratings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 112 out of 129
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Mixed: 8 out of 129
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Negative: 9 out of 129
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Apr 30, 2021Incredibly 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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Apr 1, 2020
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Jun 5, 2019"I am easy to find" is art on its most vulnerable nature. So poetic. So human. Amazing!
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May 26, 2019
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May 23, 2019I 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.
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May 21, 2019There are bits and pieces of their past albums' inspirations sprinkled throughout the 60+ minute run-time of "I Am Easy to Find". All of those bits, however, are swallowed whole by horridly boring melodies and ballads. The National has created what is easily their worst release to date.
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May 21, 2019One of the best The National albums..quiet relaxing..amazing females vocals.. Possible album of the year 2019.
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May 20, 2019Brilliant. Album of the year. Thank you, thank you, thank you for pushing your sound and coming out with a quality album.
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May 17, 2019Awesome album from start to finish. A beautiful album and some of their best. Definitely a solid 9. Best new indie album of 2019! Hands down.
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May 18, 2019I Am Easy to Find is an overwhelming, emotional journey through the dark, fragile parts of life. The National consolidate their identity as one of the most brilliant indie rock bands out there.
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May 17, 2019
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May 17, 2019
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May 17, 2019I was kinda excited for the album when I knew about it, specially because I really liked their last one, and when I found out they had featured Sharon Van Etten. But I wasn't expecting to like it this much, it really was a great surprise and it has some of my favorites songs of the year so far. I totally recommend it, please give it a listen. You won't be disappointed.
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May 17, 2019Certainly a departure from the usual The National sound, this album presents a calmer, more organized sound than previous records. However it is a welcome change, as always the band shows a mastery with melody and lyrical composition, adding an amazing female vocal backdrop that make the record so much more intimate and new. Another amazing effort from the band.
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May 17, 2019
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May 17, 2019This album listening feels like entering a photography museum presented with your life. There are some ugly and beautiful parts but they all are part of you. This band managed to play on their strength but it elevated it to give us all the sense that we are part of it. Impeccable work - arrange, lyrics, voices, feelings.
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May 28, 2019While 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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May 22, 2019By 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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May 20, 2019The 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.