Blog: Fusion 45

Fusion 45 Presents Paste Magazine's Album Of The Decade #20 If you're the type that thinks every album title has its reasons, think back to the titular character of the first Rocky movie. It's easy to forget that even though Rocky Balboa became a hero by taking Apollo Creed's beatings for a full fifteen rounds, he still lost. Since their humble debut in 2001, the National have progressively gotten better at conveying this uneasy sense of moral victory. Even the parts of 2005's outstanding Alligator that did sound like triumph ("All the Wine," "Mr. November") were [...]