Trouble Will Find Me, by The National

Trouble Will Find Me

by The National

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cloudrockinfromIowa Love The National, grown to really embrace their unique sound as i age. Very dynamic tunes love this album. Favorite track: I Should Live in Salt.

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dekluded Got a couple bangers Favorite track: I Need My Girl.

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1.	I Should Live in Salt 04:08	info	buy track
2.	Demons 03:31	info	buy track
3.	Don't Swallow the Cap 04:45	info	buy track
4.	Fireproof 02:58	info	buy track
5.	Sea of Love 03:41	info	buy track
6.	Heavenfaced 04:23	info	buy track
7.	This is the Last Time 04:43	info	buy track
8.	Graceless 04:35	info	buy track
9.	Slipped 04:25	info	buy track
10.	I Need My Girl 04:05	info	buy track
11.	Humiliation 05:00	info	buy track
12.	Pink Rabbits 04:36	info	buy track
13.	Hard to Find 04:13	info	buy track

about

In January 2012, following a twenty-two month tour to promote the band’s previous record, High Violet, guitarist Aaron Dessner returned home to Brooklyn, where the fitfulness of his newborn daughter threw Aaron into a more or less sustained fugue state—“sleepless and up all the time,” as he puts it. Punch-drunk, he shuffled into the band’s studio (situated in Aaron’s backyard), where he amused himself writing musical fragments that he then sent over to vocalist Matt Berninger. Recalls Matt of Aaron, “He’d be so tired while he was playing his guitar and working on ideas that he wouldn’t intellectualize anything. In the past, he and Aaron’s twin brother, Bryce would be reluctant to send me things that weren’t in their opinion musically interesting—which I respected, but often those would be hard for me to connect to emotionally. This time around, they sent me sketch after sketch that immediately got me on a visceral level."

From beginning to end, Trouble Will Find Me possesses the effortless and unself-conscious groove of a downstream swimmer. It’s at times lush and at others austere, suffused with insomniacal preoccupations that skirt despair without succumbing to it. There are alluring melodies, and the murderously deft undercurrent supplied by the Devendorfs. There are songs that seem (for Matt anyway) overtly sentimental—among them, the Simon & Garfunkel-esque 'Fireproof', 'I Need My Girl' (with Matt’s unforgettable if throwaway reference to a party “full of punks and cannonballers”) and 'I Should Live In Salt' (which Aaron composed as a send-up to the Kinks and which Matt wrote about his brother).
While a recognition of mortality looms in these numbers, they’re buoyed by a kind of emotional resoluteness—“We’ll all arrive in heaven alive”—that will surprise devotees of Matt’s customary wry fatalism. Then there are the songs that Aaron describes as “songs you could dance to—more fun, or at least The National’s version of fun.” These include 'Demons'—a mordant romp in 7/4, proof that bleakness can actually be rousing—and the haunting 'Humiliation' in which the insistent locomotion of Bryan’s snarebeat is offset by Matt’s semi-detached gallows rumination: “If I die this instant/taken from a distance/they will probably list it down among other things around town.”

Finally there are songs—like 'Pink Rabbits' and the lilting 'Slipped' (the latter termed by Aaron “the kind of song we’ve always wanted to write”)—that aspire to be classics, with Orbison-like melodic geometry. In these songs, as well as in 'Heavenfaced', Matt emerges from his self-described “comfort zone of chant-rock” and glides into a sonorous high register of unexpected gorgeousness.

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 beginnings—when, says Aaron, “our ideas would immediately click with each other. It’s free-wheeling again. The songs on one level are our most complex, and on another they’re our most simple and human. It just feels like we’ve embraced the chemistry we have.”

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released May 20, 2013

2013, 4AD Ltd

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The National Brooklyn, New York

The National are a Brooklyn-based five-piece hailing from Ohio. The group contains two pairs of brothers -- Bryce Dessner (guitars), Aaron Dessner (bass, guitars), Scott Devendorf (bass, guitars), and Bryan Devendorf (drums) -- and features Matt Berninger on vocals. ... more

shows

May 29

Parc del Fòrum

Barcelona, Spain
Jun 2

Carroponte

Sesto San Giovanni, Italy
Jun 3

Auditorium Parco della Musica - Cavea

Rome, Italy
Jun 5

Zénith de Paris - La Villette

Paris, France
Jun 5

Zénith de Paris - La Villette

Paris, France
Jun 6

Parque da Cidade

Porto, Portugal
Jun 21

Eichenring

Scheessel, Germany
Jun 24

Lake Jarun

Zagreb, Croatia
Jun 25

Stadthalle Wien

Vienna, Austria
Jun 26

Worthy Farm

Pilton, UK
Jun 27

KUNSTRASEN bonn gronau

Bonn, Germany
Jul 2

Eden Project

St. Austell, UK
Jul 3

Cardiff Castle

Cardiff, UK
Jul 4

Castlefield Bowl

Manchester, UK
Jul 5

Montreux Jazz Festival

Montreux, Switzerland
Jul 5

Crystal Palace Park

London, UK
Jul 9

Montreux Jazz Festival

Montreux, Switzerland
Jul 11

Edinburgh Castle

Edinburgh, UK
Aug 6

Royal Arena

Copenhagen, Denmark
Aug 8

Slottsskogen

Gothenburg, Sweden
Sep 12

Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion

Gilford, NH
Sep 13

Forest Hills Stadium

Queens, NY
Sep 14

Xfinity Center

Mansfield, MA
Sep 16

Merriweather Post Pavilion

Columbia, MD
Sep 17

TD Pavilion at the Mann

Philadelphia, PA
Sep 19

Place Bell

Laval, QC
Sep 20

Budweiser Stage

Toronto, ON
Sep 21

Blossom Music Center

Cuyahoga Falls, OH
Sep 24

United Center

Chicago, IL
Sep 25

Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre

Sterling Heights, MI
Sep 26

Breese Stevens Field

Madison, WI
Sep 29

Granary Live

Salt Lake City, UT
Oct 1

Climate Pledge Arena

Seattle, WA
Oct 2

Rogers Arena

Vancouver, BC
Oct 3

Moda Center

Portland, OR
Oct 6

Greek Theatre

Berkeley, CA
Oct 7

Hollywood Bowl

Hollywood, CA
Oct 10

Palacio de los Deportes

Mexico City, Mexico

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