Alligator (Vinyl) LimitedStock the light and the dark

the light and the dark of life and love

'Way Out West' just as easily could have been titled 'Lost on the Desert'

and also being so central for my frequent European travels

first released on 14 April 1980

Alligator (Vinyl) LimitedStock the light and the darkThe National are five New York based friends from Ohio, who started making music in 1999. New album 'Alligator' highlights Matt Berninger's potent baritone as he intones about matters fraught, funny and sad, but the record is not simply gothic or miserablist more like the plays of Tennessee Williams, it is full of peculiar intimacies and awkward grace. They're stuck between the country and the city, but not in the suburban or exurban senses, their