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"Bloodbuzz Ohio"from the album High Violet2010iTunes The National's superlative fifth album, High Violet, is arriving at just the right moment. After starting out as a gloomy mood-rock quintet in 2001, The National has morphed into a so-called "big tent" indie-rock band that can pull in everyone from the coolest Williamsburg denizens to beer-swilling loners in the Midwest. Unlike just about every rock band that got big after modest blog-fueled fame, The National (whose members grew up in Cincinnati but now live in Brooklyn) haven't grown by going broad; they've gotten markedly better with...