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• Artist: National Eye
• Album: The Meter Glows
• Label: Feel
• Year of Release: 2003
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• Reviewed by: dscanland on 2004-02-11

National Eye is a new group from Philadelphia that encompasses everything quiet and mellow in the post-rock world. Now, post-rock may be a different way of describing National Eye's sound. It's more Americana than anything but they really experiment with different sounds and arrangements. The album opens up with the Velvet Underground type song "I Ran Into Him" but moves into the light and happier "Big Animals" more along the line of Olivia Tremor Control. Think you're catching on? Well think again after "Copy Of A Copy", a bit of a twister of a song. There are also a number of tracks on The Meter Glows that sound like they could easily be Neil Young Songs ("Just A Dream" and "New Cinema River Ballad"). They are lush and soft-spoken country songs with enough twang in them to attract an up and coming No Depression fan. "Husk & Kettle" sounds like an outtake from Beck's Sea Change. Figure this one out and give me a call. It's an interesting album, that's for sure. Not sure where the folks in National Eye were going with The Meter Glows but it will always keep you guessing and none of it is really bad.

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