{"id":1981,"date":"2019-03-12T14:30:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T14:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/?p=1981"},"modified":"2019-03-11T13:02:03","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T13:02:03","slug":"the-national-i-am-easy-to-find-17may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/the-national-i-am-easy-to-find-17may\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-sale of the week: The National \u2013 I Am Easy To Find<\/em>, out 17 May"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The National<\/strong>\u2019s new album, I Am Easy To Find<\/em><\/strong>, is the band\u2019s eighth studio album and the follow-up to 2017\u2019s Grammy-award winning Sleep Well Beast<\/em>. The album features vocal contributions from Sharon Van Etten, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Lisa Hannigan, Mina Tindle and more. As the album\u2019s opening track, \u2018You Had Your Soul With You,\u2019 unfurls, it\u2019s so far, so National: a digitally manipulated guitar line, skittering drums, Berninger\u2019s familiar baritone, mounting tension. Then around the 2:15 mark, the true nature of I Am Easy To Find<\/em> announces itself: the racket subsides, strings swell, and the voice of long-time David Bowie bandmate Gail Ann Dorsey booms out \u2013 not as background vocals, not as a hook, but to take over the song. Elsewhere it\u2019s 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. Or the Brooklyn Youth Choir, with whom Bryce Dessner had worked before. There are choral arrangements and strings on nearly every track, largely put together by Bryce in Paris \u2013 not a negation of the band\u2019s dramatic tendencies, but a redistribution of them.<\/p>\n

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Note<\/em>: The 2-LP version is available on indies-only clear vinyl<\/strong>; the deluxe triple LP is available on multi-coloured vinyl<\/strong> (see image).<\/p>\n

We\u2019re offering I Am Easy To Find<\/em><\/a> at special pre-sale prices<\/strong>, which won\u2019t be available after release. Click here<\/a> for more details and to order your copy.<\/p>\n

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The National\u2019s new album, I Am Easy To Find, is the band\u2019s eighth studio album and the follow-up to 2017\u2019s Grammy-award winning Sleep Well Beast. The album features vocal contributions from Sharon Van Etten, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Lisa Hannigan, Mina Tindle and more. As the album\u2019s opening track, \u2018You Had Your Soul With You,\u2019 unfurls,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,159],"tags":[36,829,830,194,429],"class_list":["post-1981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-new-releases","category-promotions","tag-new-release","tag-pre-sale-of-the-week","tag-pre-sale-offers","tag-special-offer","tag-the-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1981"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1986,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions\/1986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}