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• The surprise companion to The National’s April release First Two Pages of Frankenstein, Laugh Track is the band’s 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 intent.

  Revelling in the license 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 Martines Portland studio. Two nights later in Vancouver, the nearly eight-minute album closer Smoke Detector 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.

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• Artist: The National Label: 4AD Format: LP Units: 2 Country: Unknown Genre: Pop & Rock Style: Indie Rock

• A1 Alphabet City
  A2 Deep End (Paul’S In Pieces)
  A3 Weird Goodbyes
  B1 Turn Off The House
  B2 Dreaming
  B3 Laugh Track
  C1 Space Invader
  C2 Hornets
  C3 Coat On A Hook
  D1 Tour Manager
  D2 Crumble
  D3 Smoke Detector