New Album Releases: LAUGH TRACK (The National)

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Artist:
The National

Genre:
Pop/Rock
Alternative/Indie Rock

Total Time:
59:00

Record Label:
4AD

Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Vinyl, Apple Music

Release Date
September 18, 2023




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Product Description: The surprise companion to The National’s April release First Two Pages of Frankenstein, Laugh Track is the band’s most freewheeling, all-hands-on-deck album in years. If Frankenstein represented a rebuilding of trust between group members after 20+ years together, the vibrant, exploratory Laugh Track is both the product of that faith and a new statement of intent. Reveling in the license to radically upend its creative process, The National honed most of this material in live performances on tour, and captured those invigorated versions in impromptu sessions at producer Tucker Martine’s Portland studio. Two nights later in Vancouver, the nearly eight-minute album closer “Smoke Detector” was recorded during soundcheck, completing a body of work bristling with spontaneity and vintage rock energy that makes a perfect complement to the songs found on its more introspective predecessor.

TRACK LIST:

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1 . Alphabet City (03:44)

2 . Deep End (Paul’s in Pieces) (04:29)

3 . Weird Goodbyes (feat. Bon Iver) The National feat. Bon Iver (05:03)

4 . Turn off the House (04:35)

5 . Dreaming (03:47)

6 . Laugh Track (feat. Phoebe Bridgers) The National feat. Phoebe Bridgers (04:24)

7 . Space Invader (06:58)

8 . Hornets (04:35)

9 . Coat on a Hook (04:58)

10 . Tour Manager (04:27)

11 . Crumble (feat. Rosanne Cash) The National feat. Rosanne Cash (04:35)

12 .Smoke Detector (07:47)

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