Forget about Nick Drake, Joy Division or the Velvets. This decade's most influential artists are those Norwegian heart-throbs of yore, a-Ha. Their majestic glaciers of sound first insinuated themselves in our unconscious via those fine purveyors of sonic mayhem Coldplay, and now have trickled down further to the much-lauded National.
01 Terrible Love 02 Sorrow 03 Anyone's Ghost 04 Little Faith 05 Afraid Of Everyone 06 Bloodbuzz Ohio 07 Lemonworld 08 Runaway 09 Conversation 16 10 England 11 Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks
Disc 2
01 Terrible Love (alternate Version)
02 Wake Up Your Saints 03 You Were A Kindness 04 Walk Off 05 Sin-eaters 06 Bloodbuzz Ohio (live On The Current) 07 Anyone's Ghost (live At Brooklyn Academy Of Music) 08 England (live At Brooklyn Academy Of Music)