Boxer

The National - Boxer

List Price: ~~$9.98~~
Our Price: $7.87
You Save: $2.11 (21%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $4.96 (click here)
Category: Music CD
See more CD details
Listen soundtracks from this album

Buy this Music CD at online store in your country
Canadian Music Store

CD Details

Artist: The National
Brand: Baker Drivetrain
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2007-05-22
Music Label: Beggars Banquet
Soundtracks:

Fake Empire
Mistaken For Strangers
Brainy
Squalor Victoria
Green Gloves
Slow Show
Apartment Story
Start a War
Guest Room
Racing Like a Pro
ADA
Gospel

Description of Boxer

The follow-up to 2005's "Alligator" is filled with lush arrangements and sees the band incorporating new instrumentation and expanded musical elements such as piano, trumpet, and more prominent background vocals.

With Boxer, the National have reached four albums into their increasingly lauded career, never hurrying the tempo, never over-reaching in volume or instrumental density. Instead, the quintet's balanced on a pin, emotionally austere, if not utterly downhearted, finding brilliantly dusky ways for Matt Berninger's lovelorn voice to mesh with a pair of unobtrusive guitars and, here, an occasional phalanx of piano, horns, and strings. The tunes roll off slowly, Berninger's lyrics hugging the instruments with a sad brawn, rough-hewn as the drums and bass toy with angularity (try "Mistaken for Strangers," for one) but end up woven by that voice. Drummer Bryan Devendorf presses the songs forward repeatedly, as on "Start a War," where he gently thumps the time as the acoustic guitars frame and dot the melody, coalescing as the drums starkly chisel the melody. Nary a distortion pedal is harmed on Boxer, giving the National a magnetism so forlorn that you can't stop listening. --Andrew Bartlett

Alternative Rock CDs

Music Genres

Bestsellers in Alternative Rock CDs

Bouncing Souls - Maniacal Laughter
Release date: 1996-01-26; Music CD
Best price: $30.00

Blondie - Parallel Lines
Release date: 1994-07-29; Music CD
Best price: $397.77

Doors - L.A. Woman
Release date: 1993-04-09; Music CD
Best price: $199.99

Amon Duul - Phallus Dei
Release date: 1997-04-08; Music CD
Price in other shops: ~~$18.98~~

Tangerine Dream - Melrose
Release date: 1990-10-02; Music CD
Best price: $74.98

Tangerine Dream - Private Music of Tangerine Dream
Release date: 1992-11-10; Music CD
Best price: $8.00
Price in other shops: ~~$11.98~~

Ska Explosion [VHS]
Cleopatra; Release date: 1995-02-28; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $14.99
Price in other shops: ~~$16.98~~

Little Earthquakes [VHS]
Atlantic / Wea; Release date: 1992-11-10; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $7.00
Price in other shops: ~~$16.98~~

Exile
by Geoffrey Oryema
Music CD
Best price: $4.95

Soundgarden - Louder Than Live [VHS]
A&M Video; Release date: 1991-07-01; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Price in other shops: ~~$14.98~~

Similar CDs

Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
FLEET FOXES; Release date: 2008-06-03; Music CD
Best price: $9.32
Price in other shops: ~~$13.98~~

In The Aeroplane Over The Sea [Vinyl] Image

Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea [Vinyl]
Release date: 2009-11-03; Music CD
Best price: $14.89
Price in other shops: ~~$18.98~~

Band of Horses - Cease to Begin
Release date: 2007-10-09; Music CD
Best price: $9.47
Price in other shops: ~~$15.98~~

Arcade Fire - Funeral
ARCADE FIRE; Release date: 2004-09-14; Music CD
Best price: $9.12
Price in other shops: ~~$14.98~~

The National
Release date: 2001-07-03; Music CD
Best price: $8.07
Price in other shops: ~~$13.98~~

The National - Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers
Release date: 2003-09-02; Music CD
Best price: $8.17
Price in other shops: ~~$13.98~~

The National - Alligator
Release date: 2006-04-03; Music CD
Best price: $7.18
Price in other shops: ~~$11.98~~

National - Cherry Tree
Release date: 2004-07-20; Music CD
Best price: $4.38
Price in other shops: ~~$8.98~~

Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago [Vinyl]
Release date: 2008-02-19; Music CD
Best price: $10.99
Price in other shops: ~~$14.98~~

The National - High Violet
Release date: 2010-05-11; Music CD
Best price: $9.76
Price in other shops: ~~$14.98~~