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The National Is A Brooklyn-Based Indie Rock Band Formed In 1999 By Friends From Cincinnati Ohio USA. The Band's Lyrics Are Written And Sung By Matt Berninger In A Distinctive Deep Baritone. The Rest Of The Band Is Composed Of Two Pairs Of Brothers Aaron Dessner Guitar Bass Keyboards Bryce Dessner Guitar Scott Devendorf Bass Guitar And Bryan Devendorf Drums.

Their Self-Titled Debut Album"The National" Brassland 2001 Was Recorded And Released Before They Had Played Even A Single Show. They Cut The Album With Engineer Nick Lloyd And Formed A Label With Writer Alec Bemis So Those Recordings Could Be Released. Kerrang! Magazine Gave It Four Ks Calling It "the Stuff Underground Legends Are Made Of."

The National Made A Second Album "Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers" BrasslandTalitres 2003. The Staff Was The Same Though Peter Katis Who Produced "Turn On The Bright Lights" And "Antics" By Interpol Helped Produce And Mix And Australian Composer Padma Newsome From Clogs Collaborated On Arrangements And Strings.

Following The First Session Of Several For Bernard Lenoir On France's Radio Inter An In-Between EP Was Released Cherry Tree Containing What Would Become The Blueprint For The Sound On Their Next Record And The Session Of Sad Song's Standout Murder Me Rachael. After These Accolades And Being Impressed By Their Live Show Roger Trust Signed Them To Beggars Banquet.

A Show At Their Favorite Bar Became A Van Ride To Neighboring Cities Became A Plane Ride To Europe Became Two Summers Overseas. Their Ties To Those Good Jobs Slackened. And They Continue On Their Own Path Moving Out Even Further Out In Brooklyn To Ditmas Park Where There Is Space And Familiar Suburban Streets And Even Geese On Beverly Road. Their Album "Alligator" Much Of Which Was Recorded At Their Homes In Ditmas Park Was Engineered By Paul Mahajan Who Has Worked With The Yeah Yeah Yeahs And TV On The Radio. Padma Newsome Camped Out For A Month With The Band And Peter Katis Added More Production And Mixed The Record At His House In Bridgeport Connecticut.

Berninger's Potent Baritone Still Intones About Matters Fraught And Funny And Sad About Record Collections Missing Persons And Medium-Sized American Hearts. But The Record's Not Simply Gothic Or Miserablist -- More Like The Plays Of Tennessee Williams It's Full Of Peculiar Intimacies And Awkward Grace. Alligator's Heroes Are Reckless And Possessed Seducers But They Are Apologetic Ones. In The National's Imaginings In Songs Alternately Lush And Spare There Is Something Twighlit And Dreamy Worked Out In The Basement Of Our Brains.

"Abel " "Secret Meeting " And "Lit Up" Were Released As Singles.

On May 22 2007 The National Released Their Follow-Up To Alligator Boxer On Beggars Banquet. Taking Advantage Of The Fact That Nobody Had Heard Their First Album And Earliest Demos Matt Proceeded To Steal Lyrics And Melodies From Them And Give Them The Attention They Deserved While Keeping The Intimacy That Made Them Special. They Even Managed To Convince New Friend Sufjan Stevens To Lay Down Some Piano Tracks For Them And Recorded The Album In A Scant 6 Months After Coming Off The Long Post-Alligator Road.

"Mistaken For Strangers" "Fake Empire" And "Apartment Story" Have Been Released As Singles. The Band Have Just Finished Touring North America And Are On A Large European Autumnwinter Tour After Playing High Slots At Several Large Festivals. In Their Dec. 07Jan. 08 Issue Paste Magazine Named Boxer Best Record Of 2007.

The Band's Fifth Album High Violet Was Released On May 10 2010 By 4AD Records. "Bloodbuzz Ohio" "Anyone's Ghost" And "Terrible Love" Were Released As Singles.

In 2013 Their Sixth Studio Record Trouble Will Find Me Was Released And Named "Best New Music" By Pitchfork. The Album Contained The Single "I Need My Girl". In 2015 The Album Outtake "Sunshine On My Back" Was Released.

Four Years After Trouble Will Find Me Marking The Longest Timespan Between Albums In Their Career So Far They Released Their Seventh Album Sleep Well Beast On September 8th 2017 And Were Yet Again Met With Great Critical Success.

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