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Music interlude # 1 - Give us more National!

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I can’t decide between Interpol and The National, who is my favorite band. The latter are uber fancy bunch in expensive designer suits from Manhattan, erudite and conceited, intimate friends of models and actresses, while the former are friends from Ohio, who struck camp in hipster central Williamsburg in Brooklyn.

Between sounding like Joy Division or a meet-up of Bruce Springsteen and Tindersticks, I am helpless to decide.

Both bands, I saw live in London.

It has been a while after the release of The Boxer (in my view the best album of 2007), the fans are eagerly awaiting the new album. Several songs are already available on audio blogs. I compiled the ones I found, adding two unreleased songs and a single from the self-titled album The National.

The National – Theory of Crows (from the first album The National)
The National – Karamazov (Live @ Carnegie Hall, March 2, 2009.)
The National – Wake Up Your Saints (Live@Carnegie Hall, March 2, 2009)
The National – Vanderllyle Cry Baby_with Bon Iver (Radio City Hall, concert promoting
Dark Was the Night)
The National – Blood Buzz Ohio (Live at Boston)
The National – Warm Singing Whores (unreleased B side from 2006.)
The National – Halo Chagrin (unreleased song from 1998/9)

Download files here.

Enjoy!

Tags: download, interpol, new songs, the national

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