Excellent plate homogeneously produced and with really strong songs. Maybe a little more self-dormant than the predecessor, but one should not interpret this as The National retrogression. On the contrary: Matt Berninger has never sung better than all the dark, peinsamen moments in life as here. Now and then he breaks out even from his usual grumbling and sings relatively delicate and high his standards. Remove songs is difficult, but "Sea Of Love", "I Should Live in Salt", "Demons", "Do not swall The Cap" and "Hard To Find" are already real exploits. In addition to the Dessner twins on guitars one should also the brilliant John Lennon lookalike drummer pay tribute. 55 minutes Weltschmerz, no one can so far better than The National.