Welcome to The National Day at Naive Harmonies! The band has already earned this week’s Fine Tune Friday honors. Now it’s time for bonus coverage; what follows is a review of their new album High Violet. It’s easy to forget that, with the release this week of their new album High Violet, The National is [...]

The National, “Bloodbuzz Ohio” (2010)find it on High Violet The standard line in most reviews of High Violet has been about The National’s position as chroniclers of the middle-class+ urban adult American existence. But the fascinating part of The National for me is that they have a sound that, honestly, is plodding, amelodic, and often [...]