If you love Trouble Will Find Me / High Violet, start Pearl Jam with Riot Act (2002) / Binaural (2000)

The National's slow-burn adult-sadness register is territory Pearl Jam reached around Binaural and Riot Act. Sparse, patient, lyrically heavy. Light Years, Thumbing My Way, I Am Mine, Love Boat Captain — if these hit you the way Fake Empire hits you, you are on the right bridge.