180 Gram Double Vinyl! Features Guest Artists Sufjan Stevens, St. Vincent, Sharon Van Etten & More!
Trouble Will Find Me is the National's highly anticipated sixth album. Formed in 1999, the Ohio-raised, Brooklyn-based band consists of vocalist Matt Berninger fronting two pairs of brothers: Aaron (guitar, bass, piano) and Bryce Dessner (guitar), and Scott (bass, guitar) and Bryan Devendorf (drums). The band's previous 4AD release, High Violet (May 2010), was met with critical acclaim and impressive sales, debuting at #3 on the Billboard chart with 295K scanned to date.
The album is the most self-assured collection of songs produced by The National in its 14-year career. In an interview with UKs UNCUT Magazine, front man Matt Berninger described the songs as more immediate and visceral than their previous work. Trouble Will Find Me possesses a directness, a coherency and an approachability that suggests The National are at their most confident.
After a 22-month tour following the release of High Violet the band returned home. Regardless of plans to wait to record new music for another year or two, guitarist Aaron Dessner began working on sketches of new songs that the other members were too inspired by to not fully realize. Matt confesses, For the past ten years wed been chasing something, wanting to prove something. And this chase was about trying to disprove our own insecurities. After touring High Violet, I think we felt like wed finally gotten there. Now we could relaxnot in terms of our own expectations but we didnt have to prove our identity any longer. The results are simultaneously breakthrough and oddly familiar, the culmination of an artistic journey that has led The National both to a new crest and, somehow, back to their beginningswhen, says Aaron, our ideas would immediately click with each other. Its free-wheeling again. The songs on one level are our most complex, and on another theyre our most simple and human. It just feels like weve embraced the chemistry we have. The album was recorded at Clubhouse in Rhinebeck, NY. Trouble Will Find Me was self-produced and mixed by Craig Silvey with additional mixing from Peter Katis and Marcus Paquin.
"'There are some drum machines provided by Sufjan Stevens he did some other things too, but he had this drum machine and he did some cool little parts on that,' Devendorf said. 'There are some great guest vocalists that did really awesome parts: [St. Vincent] Annie Clark, Sharon Van Etten, and Nona Marie Invie, from the band Dark Dark Dark.' Devendorf also mentioned that Arcade Fire's Richard Reed Perry and Thomas Bartlett (a.k.a. Doveman) lent a hand, and that the record's instrumentation includes clarinet, bass clarinet, strings and brass." - Rolling Stone
"The National is in a league of its own...(They have found) their way to a big new sound." - New York Times Magazine
"[O]n their aptly titled, once again self-produced sixth album Trouble Will Find Me, they add expansive filigrees: a thicker mix, subtle synth washes, more guitar, and a convincing performance by lead singer Matt Berninger... Gorgeous stuff... Poised, cool, and impermeable, Trouble Will Find Me apotheosizes urban romance and its discontents, where conversations are monologues, parties are confessionals, and education and analysis are interchangeable." - Alfred Soto, SPIN, 7/10
Features:
180 Gram Double Vinyl
Includes Limited Time Download in both MP3 and FLAC formats
The National currently have music featured in the trailer for HBO's Game Of Thrones
Includes guest artists St. Vincent, Sufjan Stevens, Sharon Van Etten and more
Full Lyrics Included
Selections:
LP1
1. I Should Live In Salt
2. Demons
3. Don't Swallow The Cap
4. Fireproof
5. Sea Of Love
6. Heavenfaced
7. This Is The Last Time
LP2
1. Graceless
2. Slipped
3. I Need My Girl
4. Humiliation
5. Pink Rabbits
6. Hard To Find
Trouble Will Find Me is the National's highly anticipated sixth album. Formed in 1999, the Ohio-raised, Brooklyn-based band consists of vocalist Matt Berninger fronting two pairs of brothers: Aaron (guitar, bass, piano) and Bryce Dessner (guitar), and Scott (bass, guitar) and Bryan Devendorf (drums). The band's previous 4AD release, High Violet (May 2010), was met with critical acclaim and impressive sales, debuting at #3 on the Billboard chart with 295K scanned to date.
The album is the most self-assured collection of songs produced by The National in its 14-year career. In an interview with UKs UNCUT Magazine, front man Matt Berninger described the songs as more immediate and visceral than their previous work. Trouble Will Find Me possesses a directness, a coherency and an approachability that suggests The National are at their most confident.
After a 22-month tour following the release of High Violet the band returned home. Regardless of plans to wait to record new music for another year or two, guitarist Aaron Dessner began working on sketches of new songs that the other members were too inspired by to not fully realize. Matt confesses, For the past ten years wed been chasing something, wanting to prove something. And this chase was about trying to disprove our own insecurities. After touring High Violet, I think we felt like wed finally gotten there. Now we could relaxnot in terms of our own expectations but we didnt have to prove our identity any longer. The results are simultaneously breakthrough and oddly familiar, the culmination of an artistic journey that has led The National both to a new crest and, somehow, back to their beginningswhen, says Aaron, our ideas would immediately click with each other. Its free-wheeling again. The songs on one level are our most complex, and on another theyre our most simple and human. It just feels like weve embraced the chemistry we have. The album was recorded at Clubhouse in Rhinebeck, NY. Trouble Will Find Me was self-produced and mixed by Craig Silvey with additional mixing from Peter Katis and Marcus Paquin.
"'There are some drum machines provided by Sufjan Stevens he did some other things too, but he had this drum machine and he did some cool little parts on that,' Devendorf said. 'There are some great guest vocalists that did really awesome parts: [St. Vincent] Annie Clark, Sharon Van Etten, and Nona Marie Invie, from the band Dark Dark Dark.' Devendorf also mentioned that Arcade Fire's Richard Reed Perry and Thomas Bartlett (a.k.a. Doveman) lent a hand, and that the record's instrumentation includes clarinet, bass clarinet, strings and brass." - Rolling Stone
"The National is in a league of its own...(They have found) their way to a big new sound." - New York Times Magazine
"[O]n their aptly titled, once again self-produced sixth album Trouble Will Find Me, they add expansive filigrees: a thicker mix, subtle synth washes, more guitar, and a convincing performance by lead singer Matt Berninger... Gorgeous stuff... Poised, cool, and impermeable, Trouble Will Find Me apotheosizes urban romance and its discontents, where conversations are monologues, parties are confessionals, and education and analysis are interchangeable." - Alfred Soto, SPIN, 7/10
Features:
180 Gram Double Vinyl
Includes Limited Time Download in both MP3 and FLAC formats
The National currently have music featured in the trailer for HBO's Game Of Thrones
Includes guest artists St. Vincent, Sufjan Stevens, Sharon Van Etten and more
Full Lyrics Included
Selections:
LP1
1. I Should Live In Salt
2. Demons
3. Don't Swallow The Cap
4. Fireproof
5. Sea Of Love
6. Heavenfaced
7. This Is The Last Time
LP2
1. Graceless
2. Slipped
3. I Need My Girl
4. Humiliation
5. Pink Rabbits
6. Hard To Find
