Sophomore Album On Vinyl LP!
Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers is the second studio album by indie rock band the National, released in 2003 on Brassland Records. The first album to feature guitarist and mult-instrumentalist Bryce Dessner as a full member, Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers showcased the songwriting and raw emotive power of the quintet: brothers Aaron and Bryce Dessner, brothers Bryan and Scott Devendorf and childhood friend Matt Berninger.
"Since The National's excellent self-titled debut in 2001, the Brooklyn-via-Cincinnati quintet has continued developing its hard-knock aesthetic, and lucky for the listener, Berninger's relationships don't appear to be getting any better. Bearing similarities to Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates' classic critique of dreamless suburban emptiness, Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers lives up to its blunt title-- Berninger's moribund tales are shot through with the rich beauty of a rotten sky glanced on the way home from an argument, his self-effacing barbs matched by the band's equally potent hooks. On the debut, Berninger was obsessed with nightingales, crows and rivers, and the vagaries of love's beauty. Here he whispers more bird metaphors (cardinals, doves, and hawks) and intones about the vast loneliness of being stuck inside your head." - Pitchfork
"...at the outset of The National's second album, 'Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers', you just know these boys got it bad." - Rolling Stone
Features:
Vinyl LP
Selections:
1. Cardinal Song
2. Slipping Husband
3. 90-Mile Water Wall
4. It Never Happened
5. Murder Me Rachael
6. Thirsty
7. Available
8. Sugar Wife
9. Trophy Wife
10. Fashion Coat
11. Patterns Of Fairytales
12. Lucky You
Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers is the second studio album by indie rock band the National, released in 2003 on Brassland Records. The first album to feature guitarist and mult-instrumentalist Bryce Dessner as a full member, Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers showcased the songwriting and raw emotive power of the quintet: brothers Aaron and Bryce Dessner, brothers Bryan and Scott Devendorf and childhood friend Matt Berninger.
"Since The National's excellent self-titled debut in 2001, the Brooklyn-via-Cincinnati quintet has continued developing its hard-knock aesthetic, and lucky for the listener, Berninger's relationships don't appear to be getting any better. Bearing similarities to Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates' classic critique of dreamless suburban emptiness, Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers lives up to its blunt title-- Berninger's moribund tales are shot through with the rich beauty of a rotten sky glanced on the way home from an argument, his self-effacing barbs matched by the band's equally potent hooks. On the debut, Berninger was obsessed with nightingales, crows and rivers, and the vagaries of love's beauty. Here he whispers more bird metaphors (cardinals, doves, and hawks) and intones about the vast loneliness of being stuck inside your head." - Pitchfork
"...at the outset of The National's second album, 'Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers', you just know these boys got it bad." - Rolling Stone
Features:
Vinyl LP
Selections:
1. Cardinal Song
2. Slipping Husband
3. 90-Mile Water Wall
4. It Never Happened
5. Murder Me Rachael
6. Thirsty
7. Available
8. Sugar Wife
9. Trophy Wife
10. Fashion Coat
11. Patterns Of Fairytales
12. Lucky You
