“For all intents and purposes, Matt Berninger is a New Yorker. Though not born in the Big Apple, he moved to Brooklyn in 1996 and has written a bevy of songs about the five boroughs, “Daughters of the Soho Riots,” “The Geese of Beverly Road,” and “Born to Beg” standing out the most, the latter of which features the prophetic line, “New York is older and changing its skin again / It dies every 10 ye”
“The National take their boldest, most self-assured step yet with I Am Easy To Find”
“To immerse truly yourself in this record, you’re going to have stop thinking of The National as just five ‘sad dads’. Think of them as part of a community. You should probably not think of this as your straight-up rock album either. It’s something bigger, too. After they’d finished 2017’s ‘Sleep Well Beast’, The National were hit up by filmmaker Mike Mills (20th Century Women, Beginners) with the”
“Who, do you think, are album short films actually made for? Earl Sweatshirt made a good one and everyone talked about Beyoncé’s and Vince Staples’s for exactly three days after they came out, but other than those everyone may as well go home. Who really finished listening to Pure Comedy and thought to themselves, you know what, I really need another twenty-five minutes of this? Not that I begrudg”
“With a cast of female vocalists guiding and redirecting the songs, the National’s eighth album is their largest, longest, and most daring.”
“I Am Easy to Find returns to the dullness of The National's early 2010s output.”
