The National - Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers king diamond Arctic Monkeys made a sophomore

Arctic Monkeys made a sophomore album that does something that sophomore albums so rarely accomplish: they’ve knocked those very suppositions off balance

just ones that didn’t have a place on the records we were making

"Human After All" and "The Prime Time of Your Life"

Simultaneously sophisticated and unpretentious

With their expansive sound

The National - Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers king diamond Arctic Monkeys made a sophomoreLP 4AD 4AD0313LP (2021) UK, EU The Nationals second album, Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers (2003) proved a leap forward from 2001s eponymous debut, showing a band adept at delivering warm embraces and gutpunches in equal measure. With word of mouth now spreading on the band, critics proved equally enthusiastic. Pitchfork in their glowing review called it a Gorgeous train wreck that Lives up to its blunt title (with) Matt Berningers self effacing barbs