{"product_id":"pre-orderthenational-iameasytofind-new2lp20194adindieexclusiveonclearvinyl-alt-rock","title":"The National - I Am Easy To Find - New 2 Lp 2019 4AD Indie Exclusive on Clear Vinyl - Indie \/ Alt-Rock","description":"\u003ch2\u003eStreet Date: 5\/17\/19\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn 3rd September 2017, director Mike Mills emailed Matt Berninger to introduce himself and in very short order, the most ambitious project of the National’s nearly 20-year career was born and plans for a hard-earned vacation died.  The Los Angeles-based filmmaker was coming off his third feature, \u003cem\u003e20th Century Women\u003c\/em\u003e, and was interested in working with the band on... something.  A video maybe. Berninger, already a fan of Mills’ films, not only agreed to collaborate, he essentially handed over the keys to the band’s creative process.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe result is \u003cem\u003eI Am Easy to Find\u003c\/em\u003e, a 24-minute film by Mills starring Alicia Vikander, and \u003cem\u003eI Am Easy to Find\u003c\/em\u003e, a 68-minute album by the National.  The former is not the video for the latter; the latter is not the soundtrack to the former.  The two projects are, as Mills calls them, “\u003cem\u003ePlayfully hostile siblings that love to steal from each other\u003c\/em\u003e” -- they share music and words and DNA and impulses and a vision about what it means to be human in 2019, but don’t necessarily need one another.  The movie was composed like a piece of music; the music was assembled like a film, by a film director.  The frontman and natural focal point was deliberately and dramatically sidestaged in favour of a variety of female voices, nearly all of whom have long been in the group’s orbit.  It is unlike anything either artist has ever attempted and also totally in line with how they’ve created for much of their careers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs the album’s opening track, ‘You Had Your Soul With You,’ unfurls, it’s so far, so National: a digitally manipulated guitar line, skittering drums, Berninger’s familiar baritone, mounting tension.  Then around the 2:15 mark, the true nature of \u003cem\u003eI Am Easy To Find\u003c\/em\u003e announces itself: the racket subsides, strings swell, and the voice of long-time David Bowie bandmate Gail Ann Dorsey booms out—not as background vocals, not as a hook, but to take over the song.  Elsewhere it’s Irish singer-songwriter Lisa Hannigan, or Sharon Van Etten, or Mina Tindle or Kate Stables of This Is the Kit, or varying combinations of them.  The Brooklyn Youth Choir, whom Bryce Dessner had worked with before.  There are choral arrangements and strings on nearly every track, largely put together by Bryce in Paris—not a negation of the band’s dramatic tendencies, but a redistribution of them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WEA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":16462665580618,"sku":"191400015401","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/silveradocustomhomesinc.com\/s\/files\/1\/1377\/6983\/products\/613fcffcdd705b91630b6e14963c3ed9dc9a881c.jpg?v=1554156054","url":"https:\/\/www.silveradocustomhomesinc.com\/products\/pre-orderthenational-iameasytofind-new2lp20194adindieexclusiveonclearvinyl-alt-rock","provider":"silveradocustomhomesinc","version":"1.0","type":"link"}