The National's Boxer

Just when you think you couldn’t love an album any more than you already do, The National find a way.......more

Superb. I was very impressed the author was able to corral the band for such excellent interviews. Admittedly, I have mixed feelings regarding the oral history format, which there is a a fair bit of here, nonetheless—within the 33 1/3 canon, this is a major highlight. Well done.......more

I struggle to think of an album that means as much to me as Boxer. I stumbled upon it during a typically sleepless night in 2008 while at home on break during my freshman year of college. From my first listen on, it became a regular, permanent staple of my music rotation. I can’t think of a better a......more

The National is my favorite band of all time. Boxer is NOT my number one album of theirs but for 200 pages, and several consecutive listens, I absolutely would have argued it. Lots of insight here to the process and surrounding circumstances of the building of this band, and ultimately of this album......more

The book is very well researched and lucidly written. At times, the narrative was a little too straightforward and “Behind the Music” for my taste—I would have preferred more cultural and musical analysis rather than all the recounting of scenes, but there are other 33 1/3s that offer that kind of t......more