there are standout, career best tracks, but unfortunately there are also like eight tracks between them for no explicable reason
I find it so crazy that IAETF has proven to be so polarizing. There’s a whole bunch of tracks on there that feel like vintage The National and a bunch that continue to push the exploratory tendencies of SWB. I guess the length and sequencing is a killer for some but I find it an extremely satisfying full album listen. Other than SWB as my #1, I find it difficult to rank their discography. But on the right day I would probably call IAETF my second favourite.
fine i'll bite. not subbed to this thread so getting mad at me is useless wont be back to check for a week alligator trouble will find me high violet boxer sad songs for dirty lovers sleep well beast --------------- i am easy to find the national
Alligator only recently became my favorite album by them. The last months it really clicked. Alligator TWFM HV Boxer IAETF SWB SSFDL The National
Me, thinking about IAETF: 'OK maybe it's too long' Also me, listening to IAETF: 'WTF are you talking about this being too long, I don't get it'
HV Boxer Alligator TWFM SWB IAETF Haven't listened to the other two enough to place them. They're all incredible though.
putting IAETF near the top is like putting AMSP near the top of a radiohead list. both are fine late career albums that would be great for basically any other band but don’t come close to touching what made the earlier handful of albums special. some great songs but few and far between
HV is still their peak for me, whole album just grabs me in every time with Terrible Love (either version but do prefer the alternate) and never lets me go.
there's no way their next record won't be better than the last imo most boring and generic thing they ever put out
Lol what? How is it generic? If you cut not in Kansas, her father in the pool, dust swirls, and underwater it’s a perfect album.