The National live at Manchester Apollo. September 2017. (Gary Mather / Live4ever)
The National have shared their I Am Easy To Find album track Light Years with its release all set for May 17th.
The album is an ambitious one for The National, led by a shared desire on the part of director Mike Mills and Matt Berninger for an exciting new project. What they ended up with is an album and film of the same name, while Berninger has handed over much of the vocal points to a variety of female vocalists. “Yes, there are a lot of women singing on this, but it wasn’t because, ‘Oh, let’s have more women’s voices’,” he’s said.
“It was more, ‘Let’s have more of a fabric of people’s identities’. It would have been better to have had other male singers, but my ego wouldn’t let that happen.”
Touring will begin with a sold-out show at the Olympia in Paris on April 16th.
