New Songs of The National

Better Propaganda: I believe that the National derives much of its character from texts often dull and sometimes funny, and I wonder ... There are many inside jokes in the songs? In addition, you first need to write in a personal vein, but then they dress the lines when you feel too exposed?

Matt Berninger: Sometimes I am afraid of  New Songs exposing unattractive details, but a bad, bad times are less tangible and convincing that sounds cool. It is partly autobiographical, but many stories only. The woman in red stockings pisses in the sink in "City East" is only partially correct. It 'interesting to do a little' light on the unpleasant things we do, but it is never intended as a joke luster. I do not intend to humiliate people in the songs. I try to have respect and empathy for them, especially if they are with  country songs me.

BP: Matt to keep a notebook nearby at all times to write the lines that come in a flash? It was this couplet: "And 'a common fetish for a doting man to ballerina on the coffee table cock in  New Songs  hand" (Alligator track "Karen"), one who scribbled in a notebook for future use was? They write songs about lines like this, or are more likely to be used as a "key" to unlock a song that you feel stalled?

Matt: I'm trying to keep a notebook around, but I can not find a rule. I write a lot on the shoulders of old magazines and mail. Most texts are brought together from scrap. I rarely sit down and write a whole song. I tried, but the lyrics are mostly terrible. The song was written  New Songs  that way: "About Today" by the Cherry Tree EP, there are only about five lines Top Country Songs in this song. I like it.

I do not remember when the line "dancer" was written, but I remember a star of his contribution.

BP: The band has already toured the new album, Alligator, more or less what the new songs surprised you most after all these aspects? What's in a way not to expect to grow?

The National and Top Country Songs

Rise or fall in a time when bands are on the waves of hype, the pay as soon as they rustle around is The National slow, steady climb seems to be even more incredible. Encoded as an alt-country outfit (and not particularly noteworthy one) when he was his eponymous debut album in 2001, the Brooklyn band easily a firm can be accommodated in the dustbin of history of Top Country Songs music to the crowded New York City indie rock scene in the early '00s, when singer Matt Berninger were the grim vignettes of young people from post-punk revival bands like The Strokes and noise drowned out  Country Songs Yeah Yeah Yeahs. The nation has many steps forward have creatively with Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers by 2003, but it was only his third album, Alligator, the band seemed a chance of  a lasting, meaningful career. One of the most acclaimed albums of 2005, alligator seemed almost the work of  New Songs another band. But the team was just his bad luck struck: Follow-up Alligator, Boxer in 2007, the band's most successful has been, though a conscious movement away from rock-oriented songs from the previous record for intensely introspective Top Country Songs that growled instead of dark.
Famous for making albums need, time and patience to fully appreciated, made another rarity in the National Instant download immediately accessible album of his age, especially with the new High Violet date, an intimate epic, which included "emotions The band kept close to the vest boxer. Just as the music itself Violet opens high, Berninger, over the paternity and the uncertainty, writes in a time of social and political extremism. The AV Club spoke with Berninger Violet is really high and have fun because he plays sad.
The A.V. Clubs: a lot of people expected after National Socialism Alligator and Boxer. What are the implications of the high expectations have been Violet?
Matt Berninger: I do not think it affects the creative process of Violet is very high. But with the threat of a boxer. Alligator opened the door a little. "If we are in the process of making Boxer we were aware that we get a shot into the room and a case for us. This was Top Country Songs a troublesome position, we did not want us in a corner with the aspect of our band, the . to draw the most attention, is mainly the large, screaming songs so there was no fear when we released Boxer because we thought. " Well, you know, we might have missed, because we is a record that does not like alligator made "I think it was fear, confirmed that we will lose this bet. The fact that the gamble paid off for us that You do not get anywhere chasing expectations would be. I say that Violet was a high-free, because we could follow our instincts and to pursue what we want to feel we were rabbits.