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Precision and Delirium

The National’s New York Sounds

The National is a band of aesthetic pleasures—of Art Deco buildings run through a sharpening filter, of an initial richness hiding an abundance of wit. Speaking of their music in terms of the artists whose songs they’ve covered, or of the sonorous voices to which Matt Berninger’s own throat has been compared, doesn’t ultimately get […]

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