Get ready for album number eight
The National have shared a photo from the studio showing what appears to be potential track names from their new album.
The band are expected to make an announcement imminently, after it emerged that they had reportedly finished work mixing their upcoming eighth album.
Now, a post on Instagram shows the band pausing to consider a long list of song titles in the studio. Among them are ‘Broken Chorus’, ‘Johnstone’, ‘Hester Everything’, ‘Not In Kansas’, ‘We Moved To Kansas’, ‘Caldwell’, ‘Roman Holiday’, ‘Cleaney’, ‘You Had Your Soul With You’, ‘Deluge’, ‘Quiet Light’, ‘Oblivious’, ‘Faer’, ‘Rylan’, ‘Washington’, ‘I’m Easy To Find’, ‘Hague Pink’, ‘So Far So Good’ and ‘Light Years’.
Among the tracklist, two have been performed before. ‘Rylan’ has long been a fan favourite rarity but returned to their live set last year, while ‘Light Years’ was also roadtested on their 2018 world tour.
Check out both songs below.
Speaking to NME for The Big Read in 2018, the band confirmed that they were halfway to completing their follow up to ‘Sleep Well Beast’ and were just awaiting rewrites and tweaking from Matt Berninger.
The band said the new record would be partly made up from material garnered from ‘Sleep Well Beast’ sessions and partly something completely different.
Drummer Bryan Devendorf described their next effort as a “departure record” – and then some. “It’s going to be more than just a record,” he continued. “The other material that’s accompanying it is basically inspiring the record. It’s a collaborative project. I’ve said too much already…
“It’s not a big deal, it’s just different to everything else we’ve done. There’s a new element to it. That’s why Matt is rewriting everything.”
Berninger went on to add that the subject matter of his songs are usually the same. Adding, “What else are people thinking about other than sex, death and losing?”
The band recently announced that they’ll be playing a run of ‘intimate’ special shows in April, including a date in London.
The band will then return to the UK where they’ll be playig with Florence and The Machine at Hyde Park as part of British Summer Time, before their own headline slots at Castlefield Bowl in Manchester and Kelvingrove Bandstand in Glasgow. Elsewhere, they’re set to play Mad Cool festival in Madrid.
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