Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers: Vinyl LP National Album Day They were free to tinker

They were free to tinker at leisure

After falling in love with Hiss Golden Messenger’s Terms of Surrender

Romantic Piano is curious

They were tantalising glimpses of the wide-open spaces that have become Enslaved’s guiding principle as they’ve come to straddle the extreme and progressive worlds

The joke too is that I didn’t do any music for years

Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers: Vinyl LP National Album Day They were free to tinkerThe 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 gut punches 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 eff acing barbs matched by the bands equally