Alligator was one of my favourite releses of 2005.
New album soon. This is the presser...
Hello Everyone! We are very happy to announce that our fourth album, Boxer, will be released by Beggars Banquet on May 21st (UK & Europe) / May 22nd (USA)!!!
We have scheduled an initial group of shows in London, Paris, Berlin and New York and we will let you all know about an expanded US/Canadian tour in June and European summer festival appearances very soon. We will do a full tour of the UK and Europe in the Fall.
22 MAY: ASTORIA, London, UK
23 MAY: LA MAROQUINERIE, Paris, FRANCE
25 MAY: MAGNET, Berlin, GERMANY
28 MAY: BOWERY BALLROOM, New York, NY w/ The Broken West
29 MAY: BOWERY BALLROOM, New York, NY w/ Doveman
30 MAY: BOWERY BALLROOM, New York, NY w/ My Brightest Diamond
31 MAY: BOWERY BALLROOM, New York, NY w/ Elysian Fields
Tickets are already on-sale for the London, Paris and Berlin shows and the New York shows will go on sale in a few days. Links to buy tickets can be found here
We encourage you to get them early!
Meanwhile, some nice person has recently started a new message board devoted to the National....you can find it here
Ok, we're looking forward to seeing you all again this year!
Thanks for your support!
The National
My Space
Love Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers and Alligator. Superb rekkids.
Looking forward very, very, very muchly to Boxer.
Front cover is fuggen great.
i like this band very much! Looking forward to the new album
i think these guys are way underated. surely if people like interpol they can like these guyses too
I thought this thread was going to be about the ABC's ill-fated experiment with a one-hour national news bulletin.
Yup, very underrated. And underexposed, particularly in Australia.
I think he's an extraordinarily gifted lyricist. Anyone who can put together an opening salvo like this :
I'm put together beautifully
Big wet bottle in my fist, big wet rose in my teeth
I'm perfect piece of ass
Like every Californian
So tall I take over the street, with highbeams shining on my back
A wingspan unbelievable
I'm a festival, I'm a parade
And then punch through this as a BAM in a verse for another song
*All night I lay on my pillow and pray
For my boss to stop me in the hallway
Lay my head on his shoulder and say
Son, I've been hearing good things
I wake up without warning and go flying around the house
In my sauvignon fierce, freaking out
Take a forty-five minute shower and kiss the mirror
And say, look at me
Baby, we'll be fine
All we gotta do is be brave and be kind*
has my vote.
ACE.
THAT LOOKS FUCKING GREAT.
Posting while pissed. Good idea.
I love the shock of the lyrics in Karen
Karen, we should call your father, maybe it's just a phase
He'll know the trick to get a wayward soul to change his ways
It's a common fetish for a doting man to ballerina on the coffee table cock in hand
Without warm water in my head; all I see is black and white and red
I feel mechanical and thin, hear me play my violin again
I'm living in the target's shoes, all I see is black and white and blue.
Idle, idle, idle, idle, protect the nest, protect the title
Karen, put me in a chair, fuck me and make me a drink
I've lost direction, and I'm past my peak
I'm telling you this isn't me, no, this isn't me
Karen, believe me, you just haven't seen my good side yet
Well, whatever you do
Listen. you better wait for me
No, I wouldn't go out alone into America
Whatever you do
Listen, you better wait for me
No, I wouldn't go out alone
Tracklist:
Produced and mixed by the band and Peter Katis
Mastered by Fred Kevorkian
Ahem ... any leakage ?
The National's last album had some great bookends bookending some boring, um, books.
Hello from Icey Brooklyn! We have a few announcements that might interest you....
Firstly, the great French blog La Blogotheque has just posted two "Concerts à Emporter" (Take Away Shows) from the National. These videos were made in one take by our friend and collaborator Vincent Moon when we were staying with friends near Perpignan, France in Banyuls sur Mer last September. We're playing borrowed flamenco guitars (which we didnt bother to tune due to the influence of the local wine!) and we get some help from our French friends. There are two videos, "Start A War" and
"Ada". Both songs (albeit in very different forms) are on our new album "Boxer" which will be released May 21/22 by Beggars Banquet. Please visit this link. Enjoy!
Secondly, for all of you who live in the Midwestern United States--ok maybe thats a bit broad--but for any of you within driving distance of Cincinnati, Ohio, the National's Bryce Dessner is curating a
contemporary music festival called "Music Now" in Cincinnati the weekend of April 5-7 at Memorial Hall. Performers include Amiina (long-time Sigur Ros collaborators), Sufjan Stevens, My Brightest Diamond, and Bryce and our frequent collaborator Padma Newsome's band Clogs. The National's Aaron Dessner will also perform with Clogs. The full line-up and ticket information can be found here
Really like Alligator a lot, though it does have a couple of naffies in there.
Saw em on jools holland once
i thought two thoughts - 1. these guys are really good, 2. Thats the same chord in the pre-chorus in Cherub Rock.
for those far more internerd savvy 'Boxer' is out there. As I am not 'savvy' i'll just say on first listen it sounds *reads fro a cue card *really fucking good
It's leaked and it's sounding good so far.
Nowhere near as immediate as Alligator or Sad Songs ... and the arrangements are definitely more subtle than on previous records.
The production is a little ... I dunno ... enervating ... especially for a band who are so insane live.
Live on BBC 6Music NOW!!!
Played solo acoustic versions of Mistaken for Strangers and Gospel and a seven-minute interview.
Wuill be achieved here
Hi Everyone! We have a few news updates for you. Firstly, we've been invited to open the first leg of the Arcade Fire's US tour! Most of the dates are already sold out, but for those of you who have tickets already, we'll see you there!
Secondly, we have confirmed appearances at the Roskilde festival in Denmark, Oxegen festival in Ireland, and the Latitude Festival in Southhold, England. The dates are listed below. We will be confirming more festival appearances soon.
Finally, Steve Lamacq from BBC Radio in England has added "Mistaken for Strangers" to his "Rebel Playlist" on 6 Music.....we're not entirely sure what that means, except that it would helpful to us if you go to this link and vote for our song before Sunday. If you feel so inclined
Here are all the updated tour dates:
01 MAY: Atlanta, GA / ATLANTA CIVIC CENTER supporting Arcade Fire
02 MAY: Asheville, NC / THOMAS WOLFE AUDITORIUM supporting Arcade Fire
04 MAY: Washington, DC / DAR CONSTITUTION HALL supporting Arcade Fire
05 MAY: Upper Darby, PA / TOWER THEATER supporting Arcade Fire
07 MAY: New York, NY / UNITED PALACE THEATER supporting Arcade Fire
08 MAY: New York, NY / UNITED PALACE THEATER supporting Arcade Fire
09 MAY: New York, NY / RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL supporting Arcade Fire
22 MAY: London, UK / ASTORIA
23 MAY: Paris, FRANCE / LA MAROQUINERIE
25 MAY: Berlin, GERMANY / MAGNET
28 MAY: New York, NY / BOWERY BALLROOM // SOLD OUT
29 MAY: New York, NY / BOWERY BALLROOM // SOLD OUT
30 MAY: New York, NY / BOWERY BALLROOM // SOLD OUT
31 MAY: New York, NY / BOWERY BALLROOM // SOLD OUT
01 JUN: New York, NY / BOWERY BALLROOM // SOLD OUT
02 JUN: PHILADELPHIA, PA / JOHNNY BRENDA'S
04 JUN: MONTREAL, CANADA / CABARET JUSTE POUR RIRE
05 JUN: TORONTO, CANADA / OPERA HOUSE
06 JUN: DETROIT, MI / MAGIC STICK
07 JUN: CHICAGO, IL / METRO
08 JUN: MINNEAPOLIS, MN / 400 BAR
09 JUN: MADISON, WI / HIGH NOON SALOON
11 JUN: ST LOUIS, MO / DUCK ROOM
12 JUN: LOUISVILLE, KY / HEADLINERS
13 JUN: ATLANTA, GA / THE EARL
14 JUN: MANCHESTER, TN / BONNAROO MUSIC FESTIVAL
15 JUN: CINCINNATI, OH / 20TH CENTURY THEATER
16 JUN: COLUMBUS, OH / THE BASEMENT
18 JUN: CLEVELAND, OH / BEACHLAND BALLROOM
19 JUN: PITTSBURGH, PA / REX THEATER
20 JUN: WASHINGTON DC / 9:30 CLUB
21 JUN: BOSTON, MA / MIDDLE EAST DOWNSTAIRS
25 JUN: SAN DIEGO, CA / CASBAH
26 JUN: LOS ANGELES, CA / EL REY THEATER
27 JUN: SAN FRANCISCO, CA / BIMBO'S 365 CLUB
28 JUN: PORTLAND, OR / BERBATIS PAN
29 JUN: VANCOUVER, CANADA / RICHARDS ON RICHARDS
30 JUN: SEATTLE, WA / NEUMOS
7 JUL: ROSKILDE FESTIVAL, Denmark
8 JUL: OXEGEN FESTIVAL, Ireland
15 JUL: LATITUDE FESTIVAL, Henham Park Estate, Southwold, UK
Thanks so much!
the national
Consider my opinion thoroughly revised ... Boxer is absolutely fantastic, much more of a mood piece than a pop record (despite the brevity of the songs) and, on repeat listens, probably the most compelling record I've heard so far in '07. I keep coming back to it, discovering new things that I love.
Mistaken For Strangers and Squalor Victoria are truly bloody brilliant.
How are this band so criminally underrated ? How many sterling records do they have to release ?
Is the ginger aspect a problem ? If Nathan looked like Daniel Kessler would they sell more records ?
In case it is not abundantly apparent, I am truly cunt-eyed on Anzac Eve BUT these are relevant enquiries, cuntmongers.
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sideshows from what!? what are they playing? (as in festival?)
Falls/Sunset Sounds/Southbound
ahh Falls... I see. Yes then... sideshows please :)
If we're making requests, I'll take 1 or 2 at the Enmore.
terrible time of it googling these cunce
sideshows cunce!
chech the other thread dude - melbs and sydders announced.
I loved Alligator and Boxer... but I've hardly played High Violet since I bought it. Not really feeling it.
Palass Jan 9. They taking a week off or sumthing?
I still want to know when tix are on sale. Come on peeps i know you guys will know before most other peeps.
They won't go on sale before they're officially announced, will they?
The latest mailout had new February dates, but no mention of the sideshows, so it may be a few days yet.
It also said:
It'd tickle me if this was an even more fuzzy sounding version.
that sounds good.. cos I don't have it on CD yet :)
ya, HEB led the way :) I have a habit of only checking my ''favourited'' threads.
Conversation 16 on Letterman last night
i ain't afraid o no zombies.
That ginger in the back is Richard Reed Parry from Arcade Fire.
Is Conversation 16 the new single? It's my favourite track off High Violet, but for some reason the Letterman version doesn't do it for me.
New song (for the movie Win Win) suggests the best may be yet to come with this band.
Absolute genius. Helpfully, Katis is restored to full production duties.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx3PW1mqadA
All Tomorrow's Parties curated by The National
Butlins Holiday Centre
Minehead, Somerset
TA24 5SH
Friday 7 Dec 2012 - Sunday 9 Dec 2012
Pre-sale now available
ATP are extremely excited to announce our annual December festival, this year the three day event at Butlins, Minehead will be curated & headlined by Cincinnati, Ohio's THE NATIONAL - performing their only UK show of 2012.
First announcement:
The National
Kronos Quartet
The Antlers
Owen Pallett
Boris
Tim Hecker
Sharon Van Etten
My Brightest Diamond
Wye Oak
Lower Dens
Megafaun
Suuns
Dark Dark Dark
Buke and Gase
brooklyn snubbed!