The National - Sleep Well Beast (September 8, 2017) Album • Page 41

I saw them last month at Aaron and Bryce's new festival in Copenhagen and they had Justin Vernon play "Nobody Else Will be There" and "Guilty Party" with them. Not sure if JV played a larger part on those two songs.

 

Berninger sounds more weary and defeated than ever before on this

 

after 1 listen im not even sure what to say..

wow...

 

This album is something else. Just finished my first listen, and this is seriously so fantastic.

 

his soft vocals have never sounded better

well his vocals in general here are all incredible

 

Ughhhh I cannot listen again until after dinner. I just want to listen to this all day.

 

I'll Still Destroy You -- Dark Side of the Gym is just an incredible four song stretch.

I'm so happy that I only listened to System once and skipped the rest of the singles. Guilty Party and Carin absolutely fucked me up and I'm glad my first time hearing those tracks was in context of the album.

 

Turtleneck is nuts but I like it. It's acts as an intermission in a way

 

The only I hadn't heard was "Day I Die" and I nearly broke down on the way to work.

 

The opener is so fucking good. Love that piano.

Lots of people will be talking about the guitar on this, and rightfully so, but I can't stop thinking about the piano.

 

I see it that way as well. I think it fits fine.

 

The opener is probably my favorite song after 2 listens tbh

 

Guilty Party & Day I Die were my two favorites on first listen

 

The drums at the end of I'll Still Destroy You...

good lord

 

Dark Side of the Gym forever

 

Day I Die hit me really hard too. Those lyrics are crushing. While I'm in a pretty healthy marriage, I can't say I've never felt like him there. Fuck.

 

Also agree on the piano being the part about most of these songs.

The singles were p e r f e c t l y placed throughout the album.. Like.. what the fuck? how?

 

This is honestly twice as good as TWFM

 

I disagree. It might end up surpassing it for me but I don't think any record ever is TWICE as good as TWFM

Where do you rank it?

 

I was gonna do a partial discography run last night (I've done it multiple times in the past few weeks) but I ended up just listening to Boxer four times in a row.

Boxer foreva.

 

No way. Not saying it's better or worse, but no way is it twice as good.

 

You can hear Justins OP-1 all over the title track

 

Amazing record. Will likely be in my top three (for sure top five).

 

First time listening to the band and I'm really enjoying this record.