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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0607618025229
Label: Beggars Banquet
Manufacturer: Beggars Banquet
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Beggars Banquet
Release Date: May 22, 2007
Sales Rank: 1083
Studio: Beggars Banquet
Disc 1:- Fake Empire
- Mistaken For Strangers
- Brainy
- Squalor Victoria
- Green Gloves
- Slow Show
- Apartment Story
- Start a War
- Guest Room
- Racing Like a Pro
- ADA
- Gospel
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Album Description:
The follow-up to 2005's 'Alligator' is filled with lush arrangements and sees the band incorporating new instrumentation and expanded musical elements such as piano, trumpet, and more prominent background vocals.
Amazon.com:
With Boxer, the National have reached four albums into their increasingly lauded career, never hurrying the tempo, never over-reaching in volume or instrumental density. Instead, the quintet's balanced on a pin, emotionally austere, if not utterly downhearted, finding brilliantly dusky ways for Matt Berninger's lovelorn voice to mesh with a pair of unobtrusive guitars and, here, an occasional phalanx of piano, horns, and strings. The tunes roll off slowly, Berninger's lyrics hugging the instruments with a sad brawn, rough-hewn as the drums and bass toy with angularity (try 'Mistaken for Strangers,' for one) but end up woven by that voice. Drummer Bryan Devendorf presses the songs forward repeatedly, as on 'Start a War,' where he gently thumps the time as the acoustic guitars frame and dot the melody, coalescing as the drums starkly chisel the melody. Nary a distortion pedal is harmed on Boxer, giving the National a magnetism so forlorn that you can't stop listening. --Andrew Bartlett
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It seems like an OK album but I can't be sure because every time I put it on, I fall asleep.
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It's literate, soulful, tuneful. This is music for adults -- in the tradition of Blood on the Tracks and Court and Spark. The songs get better the more you listen to them.
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I bought this on a punt, it was in the supposedly personalized Amazon recommends for you section. If memory serves me the review said it was moody and atmospheric and it's true I'm a moody, melancholic girl when it comes to music but if this is moody and atmospheric then who can tell because it's almost impossible to hear anything other than the relentless, irritating ratter-tat-tat of the generic sounding, very uninspiring drums which are on almost every track. I do suspect there is a fairly beautiful ... Read More
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I heard The National from their previous album, which I did not like at all. It sounded like half the bands that were popular on the indie scene at that time. But then, I started to find The Boxer on top of all the lists in publications that I liked and respected. Still, with the memory of the last one, I held off. Now, I've finally given it a try, or rather a few tries. Musically, the album is nice. Not great, but nice. It has a lot of melody, atmosphere, and it is envolved enough to not sound simplistic. ... Read More
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This album is amazing. Lyrics are deep as hell. Thick with imagery. It will make you sit around and reflect on your life as you listen to the songwriter reflect on his. The music is perfect. On the opening track, "Fake Empire" they resist the urge to go in for the kill early insteads they choose for a steady ride to the finish. The entire album Nothing is overdone. It all fits in the right place. Its like channeling the best of 80's R.E.M. and U2 with a touch of the Smiths to go with it. Like listening ... Read More
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