The National: Eucalyptus – videoklip az új First Two Pages Of Frankenstein albumhoz

A fentebb már említett Taylor Swift mellett Phoebe Bridgers és Sufjan Stevens vendégszereplésével készült kilencedik albumhoz írt új szerzemények közül a National tavalyi koncertjein már hallható volt féltucat dal élőben, az utolsó 2022-es fellépéseken szeptember végén bemutatott Eucalyptus című számból pedig fél év után most végre a stúdióverzió is megérkezett.

A szövegében egy szakítás/válás utáni osztozkodásról mesélő – a Cowboy Junkies és az Afghan Whigs előtt is tisztelgő – dal klipjét nagyrészt a National vidéki főhadiszállásán, a New York állambeli Hudson-völgyben Aaron Dessner gitáros-producer Long Pond stúdiójában forgatta a már több Matt Berninger-szólóvideóval is bizonyító Chris Sgroi rendező és a frontember öccse, Tom Berninger (aki korábban a zenekar 2013-as Mistaken For Strangers turnéfilmjét és az EL VY mellékprojekt 2015-2016-os klipsorozatát is jegyezte).

a dal élő ősbemutatója 2022. szeptember 23-án a Port Chester-i Capitol Theatre-ben:

What about the glass dandelions?
What about the TV screen?
What about the undeveloped camera?
Maybe should bury these
What about the last of the good ones?
What about the ceiling fans?
What if we moved back to New York?
What about the moondrop light?

You should take it ’cause I’m not gonna take it
You should take it, I’m only gonna break it
You should take it ’cause I’m not gonna take it
You should take it, you should take it

What about the rainbow eucalyptus?
What about the instruments?
What about the Cowboy Junkies?
What about the Afghan Whigs?
What about the Mountain Valley Spring?
What about the ornaments?
What if I reinvented again?
What about the moondrop light?

You should take it ’cause I’m not gonna take it
You should take it, I’m only gonna break it
You should take it ’cause I’m not gonna take it
You should take it, you should take it
You should take it ’cause I’m not gonna take it
You should take it, if I miss it, I’ll visit
You should take it ’cause I’m not gonna take it
You should take it, you should take it

I don’t want it, I don’t care, I don’t want it
It wouldn’t be fair, it’d be so alone
Without you there, it wouldn’t be fair
It wouldn’t be fair, there’s nobody home
I’m already there, it wouldn’t be fair

You should take it ’cause I’m not gonna take it
You should take it, I’m only gonna break it
You should take it ’cause I’m not gonna take it
You should take it, you should take it
You should take it, ’cause I’m not gonna take it
You should take it, if I miss it, I’ll visit
You should take it ’cause I’m not gonna take it
You should take it, you should take it

It wouldn’t be fair, it’d be so alone
Without you there, it wouldn’t be fair
It wouldn’t be fair, there’s nobody home
I’m already there, it wouldn’t be fair

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a múlt havi New Order T-Shirt kislemezdal vizuális kíséretét turnéfotók adták:

How you tapped on a box of blue American Spirits
At Anyway Cafe a little under a month
Before the ashes and management capital files filled the streets

How we wove through the cones walking home
To the place on Atlantic you shared with your hilarious sister
Kicking off your black flats, demolished and laughing

I keep what I can of you
Split second glimpses and snapshots and sounds
You in my New Order t-shirt
Holding a cat and a glass of beer

When you rescued me from the customs cops in Hawaii
When I shut down the place with my Japanese novelty bomb
And your dad came along

How you had me lay down for a temperature check
With the cool of your hand on the back of my neck
When I said „I think I’m finally going crazy for real”

I keep what I can of you
Split second glimpses and snapshots and sounds
You in my New Order t-shirt
Holding a cat and a glass of beer
I flicker through
I carry them with me like drugs in a pocket
You in a Kentucky aquarium
Talking to a shark in a corner

You in a bath on the phone
Telling somebody that maybe they’re better off leaving
Than staying in it alone
You in a bath on the phone
Telling somebody that maybe they’re better off leaving
Than staying in it alone

When you cried at the beach and recovered in seconds
And said everything’s fine but I knew that it wasn’t
Then you stayed out of reach of me for almost a year

How you looked like a poster of a 70’s movie
Standing outside at the base of your magazine skyscraper
Waiting for me to go drinking downtown

I keep what I can of you
Split second glimpses and snapshots and sounds
You in my New Order t-shirt
Holding a cat and a glass of beer
I flicker through
I carry them with me like drugs in a pocket
You in a Kentucky aquarium
Talking to a shark in a corner

I keep what I can of you
Split second glimpses and snapshots and sounds
You in my New Order t-shirt
Holding a cat and a glass of beer
I flicker through
I carry them with me like drugs in a pocket
You in a Kentucky aquarium
Talking to a shark in a corner

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az új album Tropic Morning News című első beharangozó száma élőben március elején Jimmy Fallon tévéműsorában:

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az április 28-án megjelenő új nagylemez borítója és számlistája a közreműködő vendégek nevével:

The National: First Two Pages Of Frankenstein (2023)

1 Once Upon A Poolside (feat. Sufjan Stevens)
2 Eucalyptus
3 New Order T-Shirt
4 This Isn’t Helping (feat. Phoebe Bridgers)
5 Tropic Morning News
6 Alien
7 The Alcott (feat. Taylor Swift)
8 Grease In Your Hair
9 Ice Machines
10 Your Mind Is Not Your Friend (feat. Phoebe Bridgers)
11 Send For Me