First ever club meeting

The National - Boxer

Background: From Ohio, now live in Brooklyn. Are playing at pitchfork. 

1. Fake Empire:

A little U2-ey when it kicks in. Great trumpet. 

2. Mistaken for Strangers:

INTERPOL! Good lyrics.

3. Brainy:

Breena likes. Beat drives you forward: Gwen. Dictionary reference. Creepy but cool. A bit 'o the cure.

4. Squalor Victoria:

Reem overwhelmed by strings. Turned on Blondie to divert emotion. Steve likes the the science words. 

5. Green Gloves

Nice break, pleasant guitar rift. Emotive. Emoticon = :-/. 

6. Slow show:

Standout track: Nick. Lean against the wall the wall leans away: feeling drunk. 

7. Apartment story:

Interesting fuzz bass. Pin your flower on: thinking of prom. Use of repeating words is done well.  Tell by the drummer they are probably pretty tight live. Tight = together.

8. Start a war:

Police show strings. Strings that ask you a question in the beginning and keep asking.

9. Guestroom:

Maybe just more of the same. Post rock - 80's feel.

10. Racing like pro:

Breena says boring, Molly say a cool line is in there. Glowing young ruffian. Kind of cooling down the album.

11. Ada:

Not sure what this one is about. 

... we stopped talking about the album. 

Overall:

Solid, if artsy album. What does the if clause mean?

Onamatapoetic <-- Steve's term

William Burp... invented the burp? According to Steve.

A whole 'nother thing... where did this originate? -Steve

Wikipedia, not accurate. But is Steve's life. 

A long album for this genre.

Very remindative album, not preposterously original.

Survey questions:

First concert: 

Swen : J Smith Christian rocker

Reem: NKOTB

Breena: ETW Christian rapper

lost carppy interconnect connection and some of my post. Publishing... good month!