High Violet [Vinyl]

After securing critical approval with albums like Alligator and Boxer, the National reprise their relationship with producer Peter Katis for the muscled, melancholic High Violet.

High Violet, is a nervy, melodic, explosive and beautiful set of songs that find the band at the height of their collaborative powers. The music is wide-ranging in it's moods, by turns intimate and rough, expansive and spare, full of stark angles and atmosphere. Berninger's singing wild, half-broken, sly evokes a feeling of being haunted, by love, by paranoia, by something just out of reach. High Violet may be The National's most thematically twisted record to date but it somehow also manages to be their most infectious and immediate.

    Tracks

    1 Terrible Love
    2 Sorrow
    3 Anyone S Ghost
    4 Little Faith
    5 Afraid of Everyone
    6 Bloodbuzz Ohio
    7 Lemonworld
    8 Runaway
    9 Conversation 16
    10 England
    11 Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks