The National unveils plans for new album
Speaking of Top 100 albums, the winner of last year’s honor is finally ready to head back in the studio. According to Billboard, The National will return to “Aaron Dessner’s new home studio in Brooklyn’s Ditmas Park neighborhood” to begin work on the followup to 2007’s Boxer. Little in the way of specifics are currently known, however some internet rumors have the band’s fifth studio album titled Vintage Rifles with a release date in the second quarter of 2009.
Until then, the band plans to keep busy with a number of side ventures: on February 17th, Aaron and Bryce Dessner will celebrate the release Dark Was the Night, a benefit album personally curated by the duo, while all four brothers will team up in the coming months for a new, instrumental-focused side-project, appropriately entitled The Dessners. The collaboration will reportedly include an album, possibly due out next fall, along with a few sporadic tour dates, highlighted by an appearance at the Music Now Festival in 2009.
The National 2009 Tour Dates:
02/03 - New York, NY @ Tibet House Benefit 2009
May 26th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
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May 26th, 2009 at 11:30 am
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Jan 21st, 2009 at 12:04 pm
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