The National: High Violet Out 5/11

By Team JamBase Apr 28, 2010 4:20 pm PDT

NEW ALBUM HIGH VIOLET OUT MAY 11

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High Violet is a nervy, melodic, explosive and beautiful set of songs that find The National at the height of their collaborative powers. The music is wide-ranging in its 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.

Enjoy a couple of available MP3s!

“Bloodbuzz Ohio”
http://www.highviolet.com/thenational_bloodbuzzohio.mp3

“Afraid Of Everyone”
http://soundcloud.com/user6556083/05-afraid-of-everyone

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