This week we're playing tracks from The National's fouth album Boxer — a record that completed their breakthrough in the UK and set up a lifelong companionship with their melodic, sometimes crooning, sometimes driving, always emotive brand of indie rock.
Playlist
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Don't Look Back Into the Sun by The Libertines on I Get Along (Rough Trade) - Break
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Squalor Victoria by The National on Boxer (Beggars Banquet) -
Ship of Fools by Doves on Remnants I (Virgin) - Break
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Brainy by The National on Boxer (Beggars Banquet) -
Red Western Sky by Muzz on Muzz (Matador) -
Black Eyes by Shearwater on The Golden Archipelago (Matador) - Break
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Olympik by EOB on Earth (Over Normal) -
Invasion by UNKLE on Never, Never, Land (Mowax) -
God's Cop by Happy Mondays on Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches (Factory) - Break
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Slow Show by The National on Boxer (4AD) -
Holes by Matt Berninger on 7-inches for Planned Parenthood (7-inches For) -
Do You Realize?? by The Flaming Lips on Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (Warner Bros. Records) - Break
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You're Too Precious by James Blake on You're Too Precious (Polydor) -
Deipkier by Craven Faults on Errativs & Unconformities (The Leaf Label) -
Sat By A Tree by Dan Deacon on Mystic Familiar (Domino) - Break
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Night by Kelly Lee Owens on Night (Smalltown Supersound) -
Black Flute by Leftfield on Leftism (Sony) -
Torch Song (Jon Hopkins Edit) by Nathan Fake on Torch Song (Cambria) -
Flight of the Feathered Serpent by Fuck Buttons on Tarot Sport (ATP)