The National

The National’s intricately crafted slow-burning melancholia has seen them ascend to the indie-rock big league. We take a deep dive into the work of their superlative twin guitarists, Aaron and Bryce Dessner.

Swift’s surprise lockdown record won Album Of The Year.

The National’s textured melancholia found a bigger audience in 2010 as their fourth album elevated the band to alt-rock’s top table. With an expanded 10th-anniversary reissue about to hit the shelves, we salute the slow-burn majesty of High Violet.

All these artists and more at Pitchfork Music Festival’s 15th anniversary.

The artists lent cover tracks to the benefit record.

The song is taken from ‘I Am Easy to Find’.

American Alt-rockers The National have announced Juicy Sonic Magic, a live three-cassette box-set, exclusive to Record Store Day Black Friday 2019. The National recorded Juicy...

April’s performance at the Beacon Theatre featured renditions of tracks from I Am Easy To Find.

They’re the Firebird-wielding twins at the heart of one of the world’s biggest indie-rock bands, and on album seven they’ve embraced guitar solos. We meet The National’s Aaron and Bryce Dessner to talk about Sleep Well Beast…