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The National: Boxer

Adam Sweeting, Uncut, June 2007

TWELVE YEARS AGO, the five members of the National left their native Cincinnati and headed east for New York. As mid-westerners who can never think of themselves as native New Yorkers, their songwriting is gnawed by a sense of displacement and impermanence.

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