The National Becomes One of the Preeminent Bands of the 21st Century on Boxer: Thematic Album Features Literary Narratives, Simmering Arrangements, and Gorgeous Melodies

Experience the 2007 Record in Audiophile Sound: Strictly Limited to 3,000 Numbered Copies, Mobile FIdelity’s 180g 45RPM 2LP Set Plays with Widescreen Immediacy and Precise Detail

“Another uninnocent, elegant fall into the unmagnificent lives of adults”: That lyric distills the thematic essence of Boxer, a breakthrough that transformed the National from a respected indie act into one of the 21st century’s foremost bands. Replete with literary narratives, widescreen arrangements, and mysterious beauty, the album addresses issues of domesticity, maturation, and escapism with equal parts stark honesty and clever wit. Stately, rich, and intimate, it’s more relevant today than upon release in 2007.

Sourced from the original masters, pressed at Fidelity Record Pressing, and housed in a Stoughton gatefold jacket, Mobile Fidelity’s 180g 45RPM 2LP set presents Boxer in audiophile sound for the first time. The wider grooves of the exclusive 45RPM pressing lend to improved tracking, precise detail, and high-frequency preservation. This collectible reissue captures the group’s chamber textures, rhythmic pacing, brassy accents, and minimalist architecture with immediacy, depth, and balance. Black backgrounds practically place the National on an intimate stage in your listening space. So you can now better mimic singer Matt Berninger’s strategy on “Apartment Story”: “Hold ourselves together with our arms around the stereo for hours,” he murmurs. “While it sings to itself, or whatever it does.”

• Format: Vinyl
• Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
• Genre: Indie Rock

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