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Years ago, when I was a younger and more misanthropic record store employee, a coworker of mine used to say that even the best bands in the world really only had 3 great albums in them, with very few exceptions.  Or more likely he said something like “It’s Modest Mouse’s 5^th album? Fuckin’ forget it.”

Trouble Will Find Me is The National’s 6^th full-length release.  Let me start by saying I love The National.  I have threatened fellow writers Tyler Jacobson and Jake Ryan with physical violence in arguments over The National.  I honestly believe Alligator and Boxer were 2 of the greatest albums of the last decade and “Mistaken For Strangers” might be one of the greatest rock songs ever written...

On a short list of my heroes – and I suspect Jake Ryan’s as well -, former Smiths guitarist, Johnny Marr is sure to land. His track record for being around (and likely the cause of) the worst period of every band he’s been a part of since The Smiths*, excluding his own projects (Electronic, Johnny Marr & The Healers), does little to tarnish his legacy with me.

The man not only embodies “cool” and always has, but he also emotes through his instrument. While Johnny Marr & The Healers’ “Boomslang” wasn’t the most amazing album, it certainly had it’s high points. The last I heard of any Johnny Marr solo stuff – I believe it was in the context of being a follow up to Boomslang with The Healers – but here we have it, no Healers… Johnny Marr’s new track, The Messenger.

Sounds like a bit of Tame ...