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Alligator
by National
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Overall Rating:
3.2347
Avg. Critic Score:
3.2372
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E! OnlineIt is the sound of Interpol as reinterpreted by Tom Waits--a breathtaking album with bite. ...more
Billboard"Alligator" is easily the National's best effort and quite possibly one of this year's finest records. ...more
Stylus MagazineHere’s a little quiz for you. Please take a moment to reflect. Answer honestly and no peeking at your neighbors papers. Proceed:1) True or False: Stellastarr* was a good idea poorly executed.2) True of False: Elefant was so concerned with ...more
Entertainment WeeklyThis Cincinnati-bred band trawls melodies out of the muck of their own melancholy, sounding a bit like Nick Cave without the Weimar affectations on Alligator . The National's deft feints away from fixed lyrical meaning on tracks like ''Looking ...more
UncutRelocate the Tindersticks or the Czars to the restless buzz of New York and you’re close to the sound of The National, who began to build a reputation as intense, hopelessly doomed romantics with 2001’s self-titled debut. By 2003’s Sad Songs For ...more
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Stylus MagazineThe National are able to pack as much power into the songs on Alligator as any of the more heralded indie-rock bands working right now, only The National have taken the common influences and grafted them into something altogether fresh and remarkable. ...more
Delusions of AdequacyThe National seems to have settled into a fine balance between the hungover brooding of Leonard Cohen and the more mellifluous tendencies of Joy Division and Echo and the Bunnymen. ...more
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