The National reunited earlier this year and “shared a lot of ideas” for new music, Aaron Dessner has revealed.Appearing on this week’s instalment of the Midnight Chats podcast (August 24), the musician/producer spoke about the band wrapping up their ‘I Am Easy To Find’ tour in December 2019.“Then it turns out that that was the last National show,” Dessner said. “I mean, not ever, we’ll play again.
But for a long time. It’s been the first time that we’ve had a break in 20 years – of this long.”He explained that the group then got together in April or May this year, “and it was really nice for the first time in almost a year and a half”.“We just played a lot of music, shared a lot of ideas.
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