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A wonderfully astute profile of the National in the New Yorker magazine some years ago got to the heart of the matter. The Cincinatti, Ohio band, wrote Amanda Petrusich, “has given voice to a particular kind of midlife melancholy: what it means to have a good job and a reliable partner, and nevertheless feel choked and despairing”.