The National have unveiled details of a surprise new album, ‘Laugh Track’.The album will be the follow up to their ninth studio album, ‘First Two Pages of Frankenstein‘, which NME described in a five-star review was “their best record in a decade.”During a concert at their Homecoming Festival in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Friday (September 15), the band revealed that the album will arrive on September 18 at midnight ET.
They also announced that some fans attending the gig could obtain a vinyl copy of the album ahead of its official release in November.
You can watch that moment here.News of the new album comes after the band shared two new singles, ‘Space Invader’ and ‘Alphabet City’ back in August.Elsewhere during their festival set, the band performed their 2010 album ‘High Violet‘ in full and brought out Patti Smith to duet on their track ‘I Need My Girl’.
The band will return to the stage tonight (September 16), to perform ‘Trouble Will Find Me‘ in its entirety.The band added that they were “so excited” to share the new album with fans.
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