The National – Trouble Will Find Me (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:05 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Alternative Rock, Indie Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © 4AD
Trouble Will Find Me is the highly awaited sixth studio album by The National. The work is their most self-assured collection of songs in an illustrious career that has spanned fourteen years. The band consisting of Matt Berninger, Aaron Dessner, Bryce Dessner, Scott Devendorf and Bryan Devendorf is in peak form, showcasing the band’s evolved artistry. From beginning to end, Trouble Will Find Me possesses alluring melodies and compositions of simplicity and great depth.
Upon first spin, Trouble Will Find Me, the warm, wistful, and weary sixth long-player from The National, sounds a lot like 2010′s warm, wistful, and weary High Violet, but where the former was built on a foundation of suburban despondency and casual, middle class self-destruction (and skillfully juggled melodrama and dark comedy), the latter feels mired in regret, seeking refuge in the arms of old friends and lost lovers, sounding for all the world like a single cube of ice lazily swirling about a recently drained tumbler of single malt scotch, a notion best intoned on early album standout “Demons,” which casually announces “I am secretly in love with everyone I grew up with.” Like nausea, nostalgia can arrive in waves, and Trouble Will Find Me’s best moments — the propulsive “Don’t Swallow the Cap” and the one-two sucker punch of pre-set closers “Humiliation” and “Pink Rabbits” — find Matt Berninger and his laconic baritone nervously pacing the deck of a sinking ship while simultaneously trying to find his sea legs as his bandmates constantly pull the rug out from under him with familiar rhythms and melodies that hide countless trap doors. However, it’s that very familiarity that fuels the ire of many of the band’s detractors, especially those who consider them to be a slightly creepier, American Coldplay, and while there is definitely an intangible, Mad Men-esque sense of unease that permeates Trouble Will Find Me, one could hardly use the words dangerous or forward-thinking when dissecting its myriad parts. That said, this is the band that performed a chilling rendition of the George R.R. Martin-penned “Rains of Castamere” over the closing credits of the season two finale of Game of Thrones. For better or for worse, they perfected their sound the last time around, so it’s hard to fault them for sticking so close to the fire, especially on such a snowy night.
Tracklist:
1. The National – I Should Live in Salt (04:07)
2. The National – Demons (03:31)
3. The National – Don’t Swallow the Cap (04:45)
4. The National – Fireproof (02:58)
5. The National – Sea of Love (03:41)
6. The National – Heavenfaced (04:23)
7. The National – This Is the Last Time (04:43)
8. The National – Graceless (04:35)
9. The National – Slipped (04:24)
10. The National – I Need My Girl (04:05)
11. The National – Humiliation (05:00)
12. The National – Pink Rabbits (04:36)
13. The National – Hard To Find (04:12)
