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About this product
Product Identifiers
Record Label4AD, Four
UPC0191400067929
eBay Product ID (ePID)25071178683
Product Key Features
Release Year2023
FormatCD
GenreRock
ArtistNational
Release TitleLaugh Track
Dimensions
Item Height0.31 in
Item Weight0.15 lb
Item Length5.62 in
Item Width4.84 in
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Number of Tracks12
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Tracks1.1 Alphabet City 1.2 Deep End (Paul's in Pieces) 1.3 Weird Goodbyes (Feat. Bon Iver) 1.4 Turn Off the House 1.5 Dreaming 1.6 Laugh Track (Feat. Phoebe Bridgers) 1.7 Space Invader 1.8 Hornets 1.9 Coat on a Hook 1.10 Tour Manager 1.11 Crumble (Featuring Rosanne Cash) 1.12 Smoke Detector
NotesNATIONAL / LAUGH TRACK / The surprise companion to The National's April release First Two Pages of Frankenstein, Laugh Track is the band's most freewheeling, all-hands-on-deck album in years. If Frankenstein represented a rebuilding of trust between group members after 20+ years together, the vibrant, exploratory Laugh Track is both the product of that faith and a new statement of intent. Reveling in the license to radically upend it's creative process, The National honed most of this material in live performances on tour, and captured those invigorated versions in impromptu sessions at producer Tucker Martine's Portland studio. Two nights later in Vancouver, the nearly eight-minute album closer "Smoke Detector" was recorded during soundcheck, completing a body of work bristling with spontaneity and vintage rock energy that makes a perfect complement to the songs found on it's more introspective predecessor.