The National - Alligator (Vinyl) Format:Vinyl LP 2021 sees this classic album

2021 sees this classic album back on vinyl for the first time since its original 1984 release

Laurie Anderson was already respected as a conceptual artist and composer

Truth or Consequences radiates a brazen spirit of perseverance

perhaps most amusing is the dry spoken-word lyric beginning "Of Lillies and Remains" as David J details a goofily grotesque situation as much Edward Gorey as Edgar Allen Poe

Ghosteen Speaks

The National - Alligator (Vinyl) Format:Vinyl LP 2021 sees this classic albumOn their third recording, The National strikes a delicate balance between light and dark, fast and slow, American and British. While their sound is undeniably tinged with darkness, it isn't gloomy or depressing. This impression is mostly due to Matt Berninger's deep baritone, which brings to mind such sensitive, but manly Brit vocalists as Scott Walker and Stuart Staples of the Tindersticks. The National, however, are American. Formed in Brooklyn in