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4 hours ago, colbourne25 said:

B&N can go to hell! So I've only just received a package from them now (over a month since shipped) expecting Sleep Well Beast and fuck me it is some other album. Ryuichi Sakamoto. Never again! Stick to books you useless wankers! Been holding off buying it in my local due to expecting this. Whats the best way to contact them? Every time i have emailed them through their website i get a not delivered email. Live chat??

I called them directly because they cancelled my order as well. I complained politely and they gave me a 20% off coupon code that I'll probably never use. Maybe I will. Who knows.

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10 hours ago, colbourne25 said:

B&N can go to hell! So I've only just received a package from them now (over a month since shipped) expecting Sleep Well Beast and fuck me it is some other album. Ryuichi Sakamoto. Never again! Stick to books you useless wankers! Been holding off buying it in my local due to expecting this. Whats the best way to contact them? Every time i have emailed them through their website i get a not delivered email. Live chat??

Honestly, any Ryuichi Sakamoto is probably better than this new National album anyway--take it and run

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There are some standout tracks on the album but overall, it feels a bit flat and uninspired to me. Which is fine, I'm sure there is someone on here that's going to tell me why I'm so wrong about the notion that this album felt dull and phoned in.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I wanted to like it more, I've let it sit--revisted it several times. I'm still not done with it and I'm not making some weird final judgement call. But as of right now, I'm pretty indifferent about it.


On the bright side, I had no idea there was a new Ryuichi Sakamoto release so I'm going to go check that out

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  • 1 year later...

Boxer and Alligator have the advantage of being their breakthrough albums that established their trademark sounds (and, although I am not a huge High Violet fan, it’s A TON of National fans’ first and most nostalgic album of theirs)  but, IMO, Sleep Well Beast in all its under-stated glory is their best written and best recorded album. I am so incredibly excited to hear the new record. 

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3 hours ago, swb said:

Boxer and Alligator have the advantage of being their breakthrough albums that established their trademark sounds (and, although I am not a huge High Violet fan, it’s A TON of National fans’ first and most nostalgic album of theirs)  but, IMO, Sleep Well Beast in all its under-stated glory is their best written and best recorded album. I am so incredibly excited to hear the new record. 

Completely agree, it’s my favorite thus far. Excited for some new stuff. 

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There was an article that mentioned this could be some kind of collaboration and/or a departure record. I really really hope this feels and sounds like a proper new album and isn't a Virginia style EP with instrumental pieces from an art exhibit mixed in. Light Years and Rylan don't strike me as a departure for the band, so I'm hoping that was a detail meant for another project or that the art collaboration stuff is overstated and won't influence the album too much. Whatever. New National is always welcomed.

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27 minutes ago, swb said:

There was an article that mentioned this could be some kind of collaboration and/or a departure record. I really really hope this feels and sounds like a proper new album and isn't a Virginia style EP with instrumental pieces from an art exhibit mixed in.

Don’t dash my hopes with talk like this.

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