The National – Laugh Track [2LP]

Description

The surprise companion to The Nationals April release First Two Pages of Frankenstein, Laugh Track is the bands 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 Martines 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.

Tracklist:

1. Alphabet City
2. Deep End (Pauls in Pieces)
3. Weird Goodbyes (feat. Bon Iver)
4. Turn off the House
5. Dreaming
6. Laugh Track (feat. Phoebe Bridgers)
7. Space Invader
8. Hornets
9. Coat on a Hook
10. Tour Manager
11. Crumble (feat. Rosanne Cash)
12. Smoke Detector

UPC: 191400067912
Label: 4ad
Release Date: 11.17.23
Format: Vinyl