I've been smashing the new National album for the past few weeks and to be honest the addition of female vocals has taken them to a whole new level.
To see a band bring such a different element into their repertoire on their 8th album is quite significant. I don't have an extremely broad level of music knowledge to recall a band bringing in such a significant change to their vocals this far into their career.
I know it's a long album (modern-day complaint) but there are so many good tunes from "You Had Your Soul With You", "Oblivions", "Hey Rosey", "I Am Easy to Find", "Where Is Her Head", "So Far So Fast", "Rylan", "Light Years".
So many good albums this year and we're still only just in July.