Alligator
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Album • Apr 11 / 2005 • 13 songs, 48m 5s
Indie Rock
Post-Punk Revival
Popular
Highly Rated
7.9
/ 10
Brooklyn quintet explore the parallels between small-town drama and big-city alienation.
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7
/ 10
Jon Langmead's recent review of the National's Alligator here on PopMatters a little over a week ago was a bit controversial among our writers.
2
/ 10
Over 13 doing-nothing tracks, Matt Berninger bumbles out useless lyrics that he doesn't have the guts to put across.
5.0
/ 5
The National - Alligator review: The very definition of understated, The National's 2005 masterpiece is melancholic indie-rock at its absolute finest, and remains touching and powerful years on.