Brooklyn-based rock band The National have been taking BBC 6Music through the make-up of their upcoming fifth studio album ‘High Violet‘, and have said the lack of deadlines and money constraints helped them to produce what they believe is their strongest record to date.
Matt Berninger told the station working in a home-made studio helped to give the group the time to hone their new material: “It was a huge creative leap forward to be able to work at a pace that meant nothing,” he said. “It could take a month or three years, and we wouldn’t be bleeding money just by doing it.”
The record, which was produced by the band along with Interpol cohort Peter Katis, took four months just to mix. “We’d work on something for three months, have string arrangements and horn arrangements and then realise that the song is just a couple of beats per minute too fast,” Berninger continued. “You have to call everybody back and record everything all over again, and we did that with this record a few times. When we were finally finished, and a few days after I was able to get up and listen to it in the middle of the night without making any changes, I was happy.”
The new album looks set to continue The National’s reputation as one of the most critically-acclaimed bands in the world, and has already received glowing reviews from many publications, with Q Magazine declaring it a ‘record to treasure’. It it due to be released on May 10th.
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