The National - I Am Easy To Find (May 17, 2019) Album • Page 42

Memorial Day, though

 

oh yeah that song is on some Massive Attack shit. I love Hands too. she has the best voice in the game

 

Sharon has an incredible voice and her new record is my favorite thing she's done...but Adrianne Lenker would like a word

 

Album rankings:

TWFM
SWB
Boxer
HV
Alligator
SSFDL
The National

No idea yet where this one ranks. After only a few spins, if I had to put it somewhere, it would be #6 after Alligator but it’s way too soon to say anything with any sort of definitive feeling behind it. We’ll see in six months or so but this hasn’t grabbed me at all like their last 5 releases have.

 

when Matt Berninger said "we all know this rain is hard to take"

I fucking felt that

 

quiet light is maybe their best song

 

Album is genuinely beautiful - even more so after watching the short film (Really made Oblivions stand out for me)

Like some people have said, the interludes don't particularly add anything but they're short enough to not matter. The Pull of You falls on the wrong side of self-indulgent for me (not sure spoken word passages ever really work in songs IMO) and although it's a great song, 'Not in Kansas' would be better if Matt wasn't trying to cram too many words into some of the verses (comes across in parts like an attempt at Mark Kozelek style musings)

Like all National albums, I can imagine it taking a couple of months before it all settles into the subconscious

 

Yeah, I wish I was into The Pull Of You more

 

Would you say you're not feeling the pull...of "The Pull of You"?

I'll see myself out.

 

The Pull of You is perhaps one of my top ten National songs. I can get not liking the spoken word bit, but I love it - the lyrics remind me of something from Alligator.

 

This album is fantastic. The National always flew under my personal radar for whatever reason but I'm here for it now. It is a little weighty for what I'm looking for now that the weather is warming up, but I can see the future moments where this album absolutely punches for me. Maybe this is just The National but it definitely has a peaceful heaviness to it.

 

Rylan, you should try and get some sun
There’s a little bit of hell in everyone

 

1 Quiet Light
2 Rylan
3 light Years

 

title track could end up being my favorite national song. i’m at least pretty sure it’ll join england and graceless at the top

 

Her newest album is amazing and "Are We There" is one of the best albums of the decade

 

already spent two hours today listening to this lol

 

That was me yesterday and it’s about to be me again on a two hour flight lol

 

I'm supposed to be on a break from record buying but I'm definitely boutta drop like $30 or whatever it's gonna end up being on this lol

 

Every break from record buying needs a transcendent release clause.

 

title track is definitely my favourite. I think I listened to it 20 times yesterday.
Quiet Light, Oblivions, Rylan, Light Years, and The Pull of You are my other faves
I still have to watch the short film

 

Is it easy to keep so quiet?
Everybody loves a quiet child
Underwater you're almost free
If you wanna be alone, come with me

 

and I will not come back the same

 

I made the stupid mistake of trying to listen to this for the first time in the dark, laying down in bed. I'm not even sure I finished the first track. This is the longest it's taken me to listen to a National record since Boxer and it's killing me.

 

oof 80 on metacritic - their lowest since SSFDL. This is definitely one that fans like but critics are relatively indifferent towards.

 

Then the critics can pound sand because their worst album is still above an 80.