The National / Boxer – CD (Used)

Description

Author: The National

Format: CD

Release Date: 22-05-2007

Details: Amazon.caWith 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 BartlettProduct DescriptionThe 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. « …churning grooves and shambling new wave rips, turning up depressed guitar poetry that’s both elegantly wasted and kinda murky » – Rolling Stone. « The National traffic in poignant moments of heartbreak and regret, but pain has rarely sounded so beautiful » – Spin.

UPC: 607618025229

EAN: 0607618025229

Model: 2076888

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood