hit #1 on the Billboard 200
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National - High Violet TOM WAITS hit #1 on the BillboardHigh Violet, the new full length record by The National, is a nervy, melodic, explosive and beautiful set of songs that find the band at the height of their collaborative powers. The music is wide ranging in it's moods, by turns intimate and rough, expansive and spare, full of stark angles and atmosphere. Berninger's singing wild, half broken, sly evokes a feeling of being haunted, by love, by paranoia, by something just out of reach. High Violet may