Alligator (Vinyl) LimitedStock ' their debut album with

' their debut album with Atlantic

first released on 14 April 1980

the light and the dark of life and love

and also being so central for my frequent European travels

Alligator (Vinyl) LimitedStock ' their debut album withThe National are five New York based friends from Ohio, who started making music in 1999. New album 'Alligator' highlights Matt Berninger's potent baritone as he intones about matters fraught, funny and sad, but the record is not simply gothic or miserablist more like the plays of Tennessee Williams, it is full of peculiar intimacies and awkward grace. They're stuck between the country and the city, but not in the suburban or exurban senses, their