- indie rock
- 43 min
- 12 tracks
- Beggars Banquet
Boxer is the fourth studio album by American indie rock band the National, released on May 22, 2007, on Beggars Banquet Records. Following its release, the album debuted at number 68 on the U.S. Billboard 200, selling about 9,500 copies in its first week.
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Character
Spare, character-led, grave and contemporary.
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
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What critics gave it
Metacritic 86/100
- AllMusic4/5 ★
- The A.V. ClubA
- The Guardian3/5 ★
- The Irish Times4/5 ★
- Mojo4/5 ★
- NME7/10
- Pitchfork8.6/10
- Rolling Stone4/5 ★
- Slant Magazine5/5 ★
- Spin4/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1Fake Empire3:25
- 2Mistaken for Strangers3:30
- 3Brainy3:18
- 4Squalor Victoria2:59
- 5Green Gloves3:39
- 6Slow Show4:06
- 7Apartment Story3:32
- 8Start a War3:16
- 9Guest Room3:18
- 10Racing Like a Pro3:24
- 11Ada4:03
- 12Gospel4:29
12 tracks, 43 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- The National
- Label
- Beggars Banquet
- Released
- 2007
- Type
- Album
- Format
- Digital Media
- Country
- DE
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