{"id":3206,"date":"2023-09-19T14:30:35","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T13:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/?p=3206"},"modified":"2023-09-19T18:43:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T17:43:11","slug":"the-national-laugh-track-17nov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/the-national-laugh-track-17nov\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-sale of the week: The National \u2013 <em>Laugh Track<\/em>, out 17 November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"The National - Laugh Track\" href=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.co.uk\/products\/national-the-laugh-track\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centre aligncenter\" title=\"The National - Laugh Track\" src=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/img\/rls\/offer\/2311\/National.jpg\" alt=\"The National - Laugh Track\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The surprise companion to <strong>The National<\/strong>\u2019s April release <em>First Two Pages of Frankenstein<\/em>, <strong><em>Laugh Track<\/em><\/strong> is the band\u2019s most freewheeling, all-hands-on-deck album in years. If <em>Frankenstein<\/em> represented a rebuilding of trust between group members after 20+ years together, the vibrant, exploratory <em>Laugh Track<\/em> is both the product of that faith and a new statement of intent. Revelling in the licence to radically upend its 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\u2019s Portland studio. Two nights later in Vancouver, the nearly eight-minute album closer \u2018Smoke Detector\u2019 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 its more introspective predecessor.<\/p>\n<p><em>Note<\/em>: The LP is initially available on <strong>pink vinyl<\/strong>, exclusive to independent shops.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The National - Laugh Track\" href=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.co.uk\/products\/national-the-laugh-track\">Click here<\/a> for more details and to order your copy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The surprise companion to The National\u2019s April release First Two Pages of Frankenstein, Laugh Track is the band\u2019s 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&hellip;<\/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-3206","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\/3206","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=3206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3207,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3206\/revisions\/3207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}