Out on Friday 17 May 2013 through 4AD and Remote Control it’s the sixth studio album from the Brooklyn band, and follows on from their successful High Violet.
After a 22-month tour following the release of ‘High Violet’, the band returned home. Regardless of plans to wait to record new music for another year or two, began working on sketches of new songs that the other members were too inspired by to not fully realize.
Matt Berninger said, “For the past ten years we’d been chasing something, wanting to prove something. And this chase was about trying to disprove our own insecurities. After touring ‘High Violet’, I think we felt like we’d finally gotten there. Now we could relax — not in terms of our own expectations but we didn’t have to prove our identity any longer.”
Guitarist Aaron Dessner said, “Our ideas would immediately click with each other. It’s freewheeling again. The songs on one level are our most complex, and on another they’re our most simple and human. It just feels like we’ve embraced the chemistry we have.” The album was recorded at Clubhouse in Rhinebeck, New York. Trouble Will Find Me was self-produced and mixed by Craig Silvey with additional mixing from Peter Katis and Marcus Paquin.
In advance of the release, the documentary Mistaken For Strangers will premiere at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival as the festival opener on Wednesday 17 April. The film, directed by Tom Berninger - Matt’s younger brother - follows The National on their biggest tour to date.
Boxer - released back in 2007 - is still an Undercover.fm favourite, featuring songs like 'Fake Empire', 'Mistaken For Strangers' and 'Start A War', which set the band on to global recognition and ‘Trouble Will Find Me’ follows on from the admired 2010 album ‘High Violet’.
The National - Trouble Will Find Me track-listing:
1. I Should Live In Salt
2. Demons
3. Don't Swallow The Cap
4. Fireproof
5. Sea Of Love
6. Heavenfaced
7.This Is The Last Time
8.Graceless
9.Slipped
10.I Need My Girl
11.Humiliation
12.Pink Rabbits
13.Hard To Find
