THE NATIONAL High Violet (2010 UK 11-track CD album - Recorded at the band's own studio in Brooklyn, with further recording and mixing at Tarquin Studios in Bridgeport, Connecticut with Peter Katis, the music on 'High Violet' is wide-ranging in its moods, by turns intimate and rough, expansive and spare, full of stark angles and atmosphere. Matt Berninger's singing - wild, half-broken, sly - evokes a feeling of being haunted, by love, by paranoia, by something just out of reach. 'HighViolet' may be The National's most thematically twisted record to date but it somehow also manages to be their most infectious and immediate. Includes the single 'Bloodbuzz Ohio'. Presented in a title stickered sealed tri-fold card digipak picture sleeve)