The National - First Two Pages... & Laugh Track Album • Page 3

Hell yeah

 

Monday?

 

Yeah, sounds like the album isn’t quite finished, but it’s close. That clip is great, though! I need more.

 

Listened to IAETF today due to the discussion in the thread, still an amazing album and I actually love that Matt ceded some vocal duties to others on it, adds a lot of charm to the album and would love to hear more of that (especially from the great Lisa Hannigan).

 

9am PT Monday

 

I think they slipped a little on curation/setting the track list but, songwriting and performance wise, it’s A+ mature National and letting the album get long/unfocused in service of making it a multimedia album/film project with a director they like seems worth the cost from an artist’s POV.

 

You roll the three interludes into their respective neighbours on the record (or elsewhere) and suddenly it's a 13-song album. I still think they should have done that tbh

 

Wow

 

Drop the interludes and not in Kansas and it’s their best album for me.

 

Would have been a great EP.

 

Or Quiet Light?

 

Oblivions is a bottom tier track for me. There’s probably 2-3 songs on that record that I’d say are top 20, though.

 

Quiet Light is so good

 

Quiet Light, and the title track are both my favorite. I like all the additional vocalists

 

wow, I literally thought I was the only one who thought this. Might be my less favorite non interlude on it.

Title track and Rylan are S tier National songs for me. First two not far behind, either.

 

Soul, Quiet Light, SFSF, Rylan all go. Pull of You was better when it was Sometimes I Don’t Think. Where is Her Head is fun. Light Years is a favorite National piano track.

 

Hairpin Turns is my favorite on IAETF—the video is simple & magic.

 

The only way I'd drop Not In Kansas is to replace it with the 10+ minute Matt-only version that was briefly mentioned somewhere.

 

Hairpin Turns grew on me and now it’s one of my favorites.

 

Light Years kills me every single time I listen to it. Like right now.

 

Oblivions is my favorite on here

 

Quiet Light is my favorite National song.

 

Quiet light, oblivions, and light years all are probably in my top 5. Absolutely love all 3.

 

Quiet Light is so fucking heartbreaking and I love it so much