Both fantastic records, but High Violet recently became my favorite National record, I just gotta go with it. It's just so breathtaking, and sad in such a subtle way, that it makes you feel inspired without you even noticing.
Seems I am on a precipice at the moment with this. I will be travelling again to Adelaide so I will be out for a few days. Might not get a decent promo up in time.
EDIT: A few points
My first experience of The National was this song. Not only did the song resonate with my musical taste, the connection with the beard was profound.
High Violet made it onto the end of year charts for many and still lives high in esteem for some. Every listen rewards you with another favourite moment or sequence.
People may be sick of it. They might have moved on Trouble Will Find Me. But the impact this album has had on me may last a while.
I think the most fascinating thing about Dragging a Dead Deer is that despite the crazy time of it's release, it is an album that is so remarkably out of time, one that seems to exist in another world far from our own, but makes you experience, rather than academically explore, those emotions and big questions that often don't get explored in modern music (grief, lost memories, the inevitability of fate, the soothing sense of mental peace one can gain when immersed back into the natural world). While it's an undeniably sad record about how fragile existience really is, it's also an album that is remarkably gentle. Dragging a Dead Deer not only suggests a melancholy existience but explores the utter beauty of life on earth, and few records really are not only willing but successful in exploring both, making Dragging a Dead Deer absolutely vital experience almost unparalled in it's enigmatic beauty.
The first two tracks hit that two-sided coin of sadness and gentle beauty the best, from the dark and stunning noise collage of Disengaged to the soothing folk-like trance of Heavy Water/Id Rather be sleeping, the closest thing to a musical waterfall I think that will ever be achieved. How they blend into each other is practically magic
Just an incredibly beautiful record from an artist that finally opens up her immense talent and makes something both musically accessible but still intent on exploring those more ambigious themes dealing with life and death that few really explore, or at least not with this sense of natural perspective.
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