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Album Review: Various Artists - Dark Was the Night

Feb 17, 8:00am the bathysphere
Album Review: Various Artists - Dark Was the Night Various Artists Dark Was the Night 4AD, 2009 3.5 I can count on a couple hands the artists on this collaboration that, despite their superior song-making abilities to my own, I have either sarcastically or outwardly lambasted in one form or another over the years. To them I apologize and say you are praiseworthy when presented in small doses. Nothing worth nitpicking here. The National's Dessner brothers grabbed some of the biggest names this side of the P'fork Fest and collected two discs worth of material we (mostly) hadn't heard to [...]
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