2024 Charity Shop Purchases #18 - The National - Trouble Will Find Me
My belated attempt to obtain the back catalogue of albums by The National from charity shops continues with my acquisition of Trouble Will Find Me their 6th album from 2013 on the 4AD label.
That's 4 out of the first 6 now on the shelves. I paid £3 for it in a charity shop in Oban which could be seen as pretty steep but I would probably have paid more than that in a record shop. Plus it was still sealed and so was quite possibly actually new.
What can I say - it is The National. If you like the band then you will like the album. Lots of folk seem to do as it has a score of 84/100 on the Metacritic review aggregator. It reached number 3 on both the Billboard 200 and UK Albums charts and was even nominated for a Grammy
I think that it is one of those albums that is best consumed whole with no particular songs particularly jumping out. Therefore I could have chosen pretty much any of them but I have gone for two which were also released as singles.
It's a double album on vinyl, so £3 for the CD is reasonable enough.
ReplyDeleteThis is the album where I began to fall out of love with The National. In saying that (1), I have bought all four albums released since 'Trouble Will Find Me' and gone to see them live a few times. But I can't help but think 'High Violet' was the last one which I enjoyed from start to finish.
I saying that (2), 'Don't Swallow The Cup' is one of my favourities from any of the albums.
I'm very impressed at you finding such a recent album, by a still "hot" band, in a charity shop at all. £3 was a bargain.
ReplyDeleteI do struggle with the more recent efforts of The National though. But they seem to be doing well enough that I doubt they care what I think.
The National are one of those bands I keep hearing about and have decided I'm not going to like despite never having heard anything by them (didn't George run a similar series recently?). And that's why....I'm out!
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