Last year we liked… The National
The National ‘Fake Empire’
People used to ask what qualifications we had to be music journalists. ‘None,’ we would say. No NCTJ, no nothing. ‘So anyone can do it then?’ they’d say. Well, watching some 400 or so live bands a year and listening to the pile of CDs that arrive in the post each and every day is a leg up. ‘It all kind of helps,’ we’d say.
So when anyone i’ve worked with says I should listen to something, I do tend to listen. Absolutely loved New Yorkers, The National, last year. They’re like the indie version of nu rave, all the best bits of The Bunnymen, Talk Talk, Cave, all rolled into one big, swollen musical heap of late night lovliness.
Hear also…
‘Boxer’, their fifth album, is the only one we’ve heard. We’ll be checking the others in 2008 and will report back.
