The National
High Violet
America Canada the national release an expanded edition of their hugely successful fifth studio album 'high violet' the expanded version comes with a bonus disc of eight songs featuring an alternate version of 'terrible love' two brand new tracks 'wake up your saints' and 'you were a kindness' bsides 'walk off' and 'sineaters' as well as three live recordings 'high violet' is the brooklyn quintet's first fulllength release since 2007's acclaimed longplayer 'boxer' and all eleven tracks were recorded in the band's own studio in brooklyn with further recording and mixing at tarquin studios in bridgeport connecticut with peter katis 'high violet' is a nervy melodic explosive and beautiful set of songs that find the band at the height of their collaborative powers the music is wideranging in its moods by turns intimate and rough expansive and spare full of stark angles and atmosphere berninger's singing wild halfbroken sly evokes a feeling of being haunted by love by paranoia by something just out of reach 'high violet' may be the national's most thematically twisted record to date but it somehow also manages to be their most infectious and immediate
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