Live: 'Terrible Love' - The National on pitchfork.tv

Be honest now. You'd seen The National tear through Terrible Love on the Fallon show a month before the release of High Violet and it heightened your already unrealistic expectations of the record. And then you listened to the stream of the record on the NY Times website, played the aforementioned tune and wondered how the band had managed to dilute its visceral, shock and awe spirit. Where High Violet should begin with a sprint, it plods. And yet, courtesy of pitchfork.tv, proof that the song is as spectacular as was hinted at on Fallon. I don't know if it's possible for a drummer to be the star of the show but with The National, and on this track in particular, it's with Bryan Devendorf that the song ebbs and flows to its epic conclusion.