The National - First Two Pages... & Laugh Track Album • Page 74

I just hate that they used the same album art for this lol

 

weird goodbyes is good

 

i agree and i didn’t like it to begin with lol. excited to listen later tho, space invader is so good

 

Yeah not to be ungrateful, but it does feel pretty lazy, even for a companion album. The singles artwork during the HV era (and other earlier albums too) did a nice job of tying in aesthetically without duplicating the main release from that time.

 

I like Weird Goodbyes but it kinda does stick out a bit here. personally I'd have swapped it's places with Alien

 

Two times through so far and this album is great.

 

Weird Goodbyes rules. I don’t understand the dislike at all.

 

trying to convince myself Turn off the House isn't their greatest work, I'm failing miserably thus far

 

It’s the standout for me so far.

 

The instrumentation on WG seems to fit a little better with the FTPOF songs to me, but it's such a minor quibble and it's certainly not a bad song by any stretch. These guys are the experts.

The new songs are all phenomenal. I don't think I can pick standouts quite yet, because I've had some time with "Alphabet City" & "Space Invader" already and I played the hell out of them, so I gotta let the new ones sink in a bit.

 

"Tour Manager" is beautiful.

 

Album is insanely good.

 

Smoke detector

 

Smoke detector

 

Smoke detector

 

Yeah have to admit this really is so much better than Frankenstein, wow

 

Dammit jpmalone!

 

Smoke detector

 

...my bad

 

Haven't listened yet and everyone's saying this absolutely smashes Frankenstein

 

I really like Hornets.

I still really dislike Weird Goodbyes. Thankfully that has been the worst track so far.

 

It does and I really like frank

 

I haven't heard "Hornets" getting that much love so far, but it's an incredible song.

 

Frank is top 5 AOTY for me and not ONLY do I see them this week but there's a WHOLE NEW ALBUM

 

"Hornets" is a standout to me, reminds me a little of Phoebe's "Graceland Too" mixed with "Pink Rabbits"