The National High Violet EMB who sound at times like

who sound at times like the Grateful Dead paraphrasing Led Zeppelin ("Soak The Sun

nor did its cleaner sequel

Engineers include: Randy Staub

and succeeds in spotlighting the band's growing diversity

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The National High Violet EMB who sound at times likeHigh Violet, the new full length record by the National, is a nervy, melodic, explosive and beautiful set of songs that find the band at the height of their collaborative powers. The music is wide ranging in its moods, by turns intimate and rough, expansive and spare, full of stark angles and atmosphere. Berninger's singingwild, half broken, slyevokes a feeling of being haunted, by love, by paranoia, by something just out of reach. High Violet may be