Album Review: The National - First Two Pages of Frankenstein

“It would be nice to say that where they go from here is uncertain, but The National have fallen into a pretty predictable pattern in recent years. They’ll spend another couple of years touring, then we’ll get another beautiful-if-forgettable album in a few years time. What would be nice is if I were completely wrong – what about an angry album from The National?”

I can’t help but feel we’re getting continually diminishing returns from The National on each subsequent album. My review of First Two Pages of Frankenstein is here.