The band have become the very thing their critics accuse them of.
— is anxiety but rarely complete sadness. These are songs of worry and longing, rapturous hymnals to the fortifying qualities of booze, and elegies for the illusive wisdom we’re told is supposed to come with maturation. In the National’s music, the crossed threads of life, however mangled, aren’t going to spoil. The group was never quite as miserable as you remember.
The dissolve from lauded male harrumph to lounge singer’s croon introduced a new problem: that of phrasing. The more Berninger held his notes, the longer the vowels got, leaving fewer syllables in a line and thus less space for the jocosity and mystery of his words.
. But notice how the more recent line looks only inward with an excoriating, flaying gaze — a whine of very public desperation. By contrast, the couplet from “Demons” pointed away from its author and toward other people, other loves, memories made less stale by their remembering, all enclosed in the beckoning gesture of sly confession. “Demons” too had the smarts to poke fun at itself, a kind of gothic pastiche with its “bats and buzzards in the sky” and “alligators in the sewers.
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