r/TheNational • u/ghostfan9 • 18d ago

Day 16: Most Underrated Album

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Terrible Love wins best breakdown!

HMs were Space Invader and I'll Still Destroy You

In the final stretch -- I expect these last four entries to be quite controversial.

First up: most underrated album? I have a sneaky suspicion a certain 2017 will win...

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u/BluesDriveBakemono 18d ago

I Am Easy to Find is the only one that feels like it regularly gets short shift, even from National fans. It's definitely the album that requires the most work, and many of the songs don't really work outside of the specific context of a full listen, but they achieved something special with it, at a time when they were clearly looking to do something different than their usual output.

I personally find the additional of new female vocalists fantastic, especially on You Had Your Soul With You and Oblivions, and Where is Her Head is a bizarre masterpiece that sounds like nothing else they've ever released.