Posted May 11, 20178 yr The National's seventh album, Sleep Well Beast, is due to be released on 8th September. New song called 'The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness' has also been released. 2O6duDDkhis I am so excited for this! They have also released a bunch of tour dates, which go on sale Friday 19th May. UK & Irish ones listed below: Sep 16 - Cork, IE - Cork Opera House Sep 17 - Dublin, IE - Vicar Street Sep 18 - Dublin, IE - Vicar Street Sep 20 - Edinburgh, UK - Usher Hall Sep 21 - Edinburgh, UK - Usher Hall Sep 22 - Manchester, UK - O2 Apollo Sep 23 - Manchester, UK - O2 Apollo Sep 25 - London, UK - Eventim Apollo Sep 26 - London, UK - Eventim Apollo Sep 27 - London, UK - Eventim Apollo Sep 28 - London, UK - Eventim Apollo They have been on my list of "need to see live" for so long now so fingers crossed I manage to get tickets. I've signed up for three pre-sales :lol: :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub:
May 11, 20178 yr Good news! Sleep Well Beast tracklist: 01 Nobody Else Will Be There 02 Day I Die 03 Walk It Back 04 The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness 05 Born to Beg 06 Turtleneck 07 Empire Line 08 I’ll Still Destroy You 09 Guilty Party 10 Carin at the Liquor Store 11 Dark Side of the Gym 12 Sleep Well Beast
May 15, 20178 yr love the National, one of the best bands in the history of music High Violet is one of the best albums ever, saw them live a couple years ago and loved them, singer was more crazy than expected hopefully seeing them live at the Haven festival in Denmark
July 2, 20178 yr Yes Thats amazing My fav song right now Genious lyrics Love the start: you're sleeping night and day, how do you do it?
September 8, 20177 yr Author So my blue record turned up this morning :wub: Looking forward to listening to this a lot in the run up to the tour.
September 9, 20177 yr heard it a couple times yesterday, great album, Guilty Party and Day I Die my favs so far
September 13, 20177 yr guilty party clicked with me big time when listening to the whole album. stunning. that instrumental and the lyrics <3
September 16, 20177 yr Yeah I think this album is going to be up there with their best, really enjoying it so far and can see me liking it a lot as I listen more. I'd also love to see them live again, I saw them at Glastonbury and whilst they were brilliant, I thought it was a bit disappointing for two reasons, they did I think four songs from this album which hadn't been released so no one knew them, and only one song from each of Alligator and Boxer, and they had possibly the worst slot possible - I was probably about 10 people from the front and at least half of the people there didn't know/like them and just wanted to be at the front for Foo Fighters afterwards so they had the worst crowd atmosphere of everyone I saw. Edited September 16, 20177 yr by RabbitFurCoat
September 16, 20177 yr So we're a week in and I'm really enjoying this album, it's the most immediate I've ever found any of their albums and there are so many good tracks on here. Definitely up there with their best work and they are ever so slowly developing into one of my favourite acts ever, so consistent :wub: Edited September 16, 20177 yr by dandy*
September 17, 20177 yr National are quite dull live imo, seen them twice, which is a bit shame as their albums are mostly solid
September 17, 20177 yr the opposite for me, saw them live and found them amazing, borderline too rock n roll for me
September 18, 20177 yr I saw them at Latitude in 2016 and they were really good. Lauren Mayberry (CHVRCHES) came on to sing on “I Need My Girl”! :D
September 18, 20177 yr ^ wow, that's my fav National song from the last 2 albums but I was pretty surprised when I saw them live, the way the singer performs was totally unrexpected, not sure why but I was expecting them to be quiet, and they were the opposite, the singer was more rock'n'roll than Foo Fighters and was jumping offstage and crowdsurfing, kinda bollocks... Edited September 18, 20177 yr by Bjork
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