National. The AwaitingStock through the tall windows on

through the tall windows on the album's mysterious and ambiguous cover

Extra deep base and top plates

who also contributes the album's sole guest feature

she sounds as at home on the big band soul-jazz of "Between The Lines" as on the more melancholic "Nightlite" and also labelmate and fellow Brightonian FINK

National. The AwaitingStock through the tall windows onThe National are five displaced Ohioans living in New York two sets of brothers and one best friend. They play smart, naked, and bracing rock music. No Depression said, "The National has created nearly a dozen picture perfect Americana bar soaked gems with its debut album." Creative Loafing described it as a "merciless hybrid of plaintive American folk with the mordant gallows humor of Nick Cave and Jarvis Cocker." "Full of simple songs that convey