I'm really excited that The National from the USA are playing Spring and Airbrake in October. I've been following them for the last few years and their most recent album Boxer is great.
Very interesting lyrically - a sort of urban-themed regret and loneliness/longing for community, with some original terms of phrase. These lyrics are from Looking for Astronauts on their last album
Take all your reasons and take them away To the middle of nowhere,
and on your way home Throw from your window your record collection
They all run together and never make sense
But that's how we like it, and that's all we want
Something to cry for, and something to hunt
The singer sounds a bit like the guy from the Tindersticks and musically they sound is somewhere between early Strokes and Willard Grant Conspiracy.
The crowds at Spring and Airbrake have begun to annoy me recently- either the place has been full of people too cool to listen to the music and just want to be seen, or full of Stella-ed up culchies /spides singing about Buckfast. Hopefully this one will be OK.
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I didn't know you knew The National! Funny coincidence, I'll be seeing them when they come to Reims in november. They have a cool new concert hall here ; even Patti Smith's been over. Not bad for a small-ish city.
Yeah they're brilliant - I have a few of their albums
Patti Smith she's a scary lady!
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