Everything Is Embarrassing: On Loving The National

Music for a leaking heart

Photo courtesy of 4AD Entertainment Everything Is Embarrassing: On Loving The National Music for a leaking heart by Helena Fitzgerald Oct. 9, 2017 Most of the things we love are the things that embarrass us. Most of the reasons we love people are the same reasons they embarrass us. I got into the National late, after just about everybody I knew, when High Violet came out in 2010. I may have been a dilettante and a joiner, but I joined with the fullest heart, with the most aggressively committed sentimentalism imaginable. I got into the band with my whole face, with my whole bad leaking heart,

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