Friday, March 30, 2007

THE NATIONAL


Artist / Band: THE NATIONALSong (MP3): FAKE EMPIRE
Album: Boxer
File Under: Indie / Rock / Gothic
Label: Beggars Banquet
Info: The National are a band of New Yorkers transplanted from Cincinnati, Ohio: Matt Berninger, Aaron Dessner, Bryce Dessner, Bryan Devendorf, and Scott Devendorf. What each member of the band does is not that important, but what they do together seems increasingly more so… When last we heard from The National, they’d released and toured behind their Beggars Banquet debut, Alligator, an album whose reception closely mirrored the kind of sounds they made on record—it started out quiet, and ended up very, very loud. Alligator became one of the most widely discussed and critically acclaimed independent albums of 2005—“album of the year” to one Los Angeles Times critic. read more from the source...

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