The National - I Am Easy To Find (May 17, 2019) Album • Page 67

I was just playing a bunch of records for cooking out with friends yesterday, and put on HV because even though i don’t love it as much as a lot of other people, it is the closest thing to an arena rock record they’ve ever made and it sounds good with extreme weather (storms, high heat, etc).

 

High violet is so fucking good

 

Completely agree.

I don’t even see how it’s the closest to arena rock. That’s SWB.

 

With the exception of Turtleneck and System, I don’t really see it as being anywhere near as BigTM in that way as HV. Terrible Love, Bloodbuzz, Little Faith, Afraid of Everyone, Conversation 16, England. It feels like a festival record. There’s a lot of swinging for the fences, whereas SWB feels like a record to put on at night and drive to.

 

yep

 

SWB has a few moments that ended up sounding surprisingly huge and energetic live, like those succinct distorted guitar hits in Day I Die and System. It also added a handful of live staples that pretty effectively mellowed out their set (IMO) from that album on.

 

Oh yeah, forgot about Day I Die. Definitely a banger too.

 

Definitely a slow burn for me but there is something about this guy’s voice that is drawing me in

 

That’s how it begins!

 

My wife hated the National until one day This is the Last Time was playing and she said “I kind of like his voice. What are other good National songs?” and now the National is her favorite band. It will get you, if you wait long enough.

 

Yeah when i was 19 i just kinda played High Violet in my car ambiently and thought it sounded nice but then a year later they were a favorite band of mine lol

 

Gave this another listen on a nighttime drive home in the rain and while overstuffed it’s still absolutely gorgeous

 

scrap the interludes and one of the boring songs toward the beginning (ymmv on which is the boringest) and this is as good a National record as any save boxer. The highs are so fucking high

 

Yeah, I still love this album.

 

IAETF is them at their best, even if the album itself isn’t their best record. It’s so good.

 

I never listen to this album. Love everything else this band has done tho. Probably need to revisit this in full, it just never really clicked for me.

 

It’s one of their best

 

My fiance loves The National but just cannot abide this album

I think it's patchy in the extreme - but if you removed 6 songs it would be one of their best

 

5-6 songs off this and it’s the best national record. I bet I’ve said this 5+ times in this thread lol

 

album is great as is

 

Even trimmed down, I don’t think I’d ever rank this higher than sixth in their discography.

 

You take off the interludes and not in Kansas and so far so fast and it’s their best.

 

So Far So Fast is so good tho

 

and dont' you touch not in kansas

 

unless you're releasing the full 15-verse version separately