Sometime after 2019's sprawling I Am Easy To Find, The National's Matt Berninger
suffered a year-long bout of writer's block. But Mary Shelley, a return to the
road, and the support of the fraternal pairs who shape the rest of these
prepossessed if self-obsessed mainstays spurred him forward to places he's
often been - a relationship's obsessively detailed dissolution, framed by
cirrus clouds of distant hope.
A divorce anthem with a refrain fit for a Noah Baumbach
passion play, Eucalyptus worries about what to do with a couple's cache of
ostentatious bottled water; a stately piano duet with Taylor Swift, The Alcott
offers early glimpses of reconciliation that, by LP's end, settle into a state
of desperate trust, once- feverish love yielding to dependable friendship. Does
that beat the end-everything alternative? Yes, The National seem to say on a
sometimes-
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