The National- Laugh Track
SKU: 191400067929
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:
Alphabet City
Deep End (Paul’s in Pieces)
Weird Goodbyes (feat. Bon Iver)
Turn off the House
Dreaming
Laugh Track (feat. Phoebe Bridgers)
Space Invader
Hornets
Coat on a Hook
Tour Manager
Crumble (feat. Rosanne Cash)
Smoke Detector
Format: New CD/Rock
The National- Laugh Track
SKU: 191400067929
Release Date: 11/27/23
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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:
Alphabet City
Deep End (Paul’s in Pieces)
Weird Goodbyes (feat. Bon Iver)
Turn off the House
Dreaming
Laugh Track (feat. Phoebe Bridgers)
Space Invader
Hornets
Coat on a Hook
Tour Manager
Crumble (feat. Rosanne Cash)
Smoke Detector
