indie rock 58 min 12 tracks 4AD
Sleep Well Beast is the seventh studio album by the American indie rock band The National, released on September 8, 2017, by 4AD. The album won the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album in 2018.
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Character
Character-led, spare, contemporary and grave.
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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Metacritic 85/100 · AnyDecentMusic? 8.2/10
- AllMusic4/5 ★
- The A.V. ClubA
- The Guardian4/5 ★
- The Independent5/5 ★
- Mojo4/5 ★
- NME4/5 ★
- Pitchfork8/10
- Q4/5 ★
- Rolling Stone4/5 ★
- Vice (Expert Witness)A−
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Tracks
- 1Nobody Else Will Be There4:40
- 2Day I Die4:32
- 3Walk It Back5:59
- 4The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness3:57
- 5Born to Beg4:23
- 6Turtleneck3:00
- 7Empire Line5:24
- 8I’ll Still Destroy You5:15
- 9Guilty Party5:39
- 10Carin at the Liquor Store3:34
- 11Dark Side of the Gym4:50
- 12Sleep Well Beast6:31
12 tracks, 58 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- The National
- Label
- 4AD
- Released
- September 8, 2017
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- XE
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