Sonic Withdrawal.

 

The National dropped a new album last year called High Violet.I was mildly addicted to it’s song called Blood Buzz Ohio.It is one of the few established Indie bands like The Pains of Being Pure At Heart and Dirty Projectors and The Black Keys.Being an established bands speaks for being reviewed and written about in non obscure publications.It becomes more likely for you to stumble upon them in print than on the sonic landscape.Thereby planting the seed of their hyped image in your head.It was for this reason that I resisted the National.Although last year,I pledged upon gathering every major indie album that released,instead of reading about them and forming my own opinion.This quest turned out quite fruitful because I finally got around to listening to  High Violet and fell in love with Blood Buzz Ohio.All this forgotten fondness for the National has regurgitated itself from  the scrambled remains of a corrupted hard drive by the arrival of their latest video for the song called Conversation 16.What makes this video even more special is that it features Mr. Sterling of the Sterling and Cooper fame from Mad Men-that is right I refer to people by their screen names-and the only-clingy-fanboy-girl of the Flight of the Choncords.