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Music CD - The National: Boxer
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Music CD: Boxer
Artist: The National
List Price: $9.98
Our Price: $6.41
Your Save: $ 3.57 ( 36% )
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Manufacturer: Beggars Banquet
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Average Customer Rating:  
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Tracks:
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1. Fake Empire
2. Mistaken For Strangers
3. Brainy
4. Squalor Victoria
5. Green Gloves
6. Slow Show
7. Apartment Story
8. Start a War
9. Guest Room
10. Racing Like a Pro
11. ADA
12. Gospel
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0607618025229
Label: Beggars Banquet
Manufacturer: Beggars Banquet
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Beggars Banquet
Release Date: 2007-05-22
Studio: Beggars Banquet
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: It's Beautiful
Comment: This album is bitter sweet in emotion, and simply complex in style. It grabs me every time.
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Summary: A Great Grower of an Album
Comment: The National really grabbed my attention with this latest release. Upon initial listens only a few tracks stuck out to me, but something kept me coming back for more. Perhaps it was the production by Peter Katis (whom also works with Interpol); or the very well written lyrics; or just the singer's somber baritone. Whatever it was, Boxer really opened up upon repeated listens. This is the best album I've heard in quite some time. Most of the tunes flow along effortlessly to a mellow vibe. The songs are very well arranged and very well performed. Somewhat dark, somewhat pensive, yet refreshing and comforting in a strange way. You're sure to find yourself singing these songs in your head after a few spins. I'd also recommend picking up the single, Mistaken For Strangers. The two b-sides on it are excellent, even if the price tag is a little hefty.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Album
Comment: This was a great great album! It is one that you can insert heavily in you rotation for a long time and not get tired of it. If you like artists like Andrew Bird you will probably like this album. I think it is a classic and one that I will continue to listen to for a long time to come. I highly recommend this album.
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Summary: A Great Letdown!
Comment: I boght this cd Because Paste magazine named album of year for 2007, needless to say it was greatly over-hyped. Its a good album, at times personally I felt that the music overall was bland and nothing was there to shake me awake and make the album stand out, but there are a few exceptions.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Solid
Comment: In a year of otherwise rather bland pop music, this is a shining star.
We were figuring on being disappointed. Alligator was really good, but dark. We knew that Boxer was getting the big push. Although happy for a band that's been out there struggling a long time, often the 'sell out' album is somewhat uninspired - trite.
So, it was a double pleasure listening to this brooding and soulful work. In fact, I found it more enjoyable over time. It is a solid record - my favourites are constantly being rearranged.
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Editorial Reviews:
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With Boxer, the National have reached four albums into their increasingly lauded career, never hurrying the tempo, never over-reaching in volume or instrumental density. Instead, the quintet's balanced on a pin, emotionally austere, if not utterly downhearted, finding brilliantly dusky ways for Matt Berninger's lovelorn voice to mesh with a pair of unobtrusive guitars and, here, an occasional phalanx of piano, horns, and strings. The tunes roll off slowly, Berninger's lyrics hugging the instruments with a sad brawn, rough-hewn as the drums and bass toy with angularity (try "Mistaken for Strangers," for one) but end up woven by that voice. Drummer Bryan Devendorf presses the songs forward repeatedly, as on "Start a War," where he gently thumps the time as the acoustic guitars frame and dot the melody, coalescing as the drums starkly chisel the melody. Nary a distortion pedal is harmed on Boxer, giving the National a magnetism so forlorn that you can't stop listening. --Andrew Bartlett
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