Album Facts
The National - Laugh Track Vinyl LP
The band's most freewheeling, all-hands-on-deck album in years
Price $39.00
Format 2xLP
Label 4AD
UPC 191400067912
Color Black
Year November 17 2023
Condition
Media condition
New/Mint
Sleeve condition
New/Mint
Album Facts
The band's most freewheeling, all-hands-on-deck album in years
Price $39.00
Format 2xLP
Label 4AD
UPC 191400067912
Color Black
Year November 17 2023
Condition
Media condition
New/Mint
Sleeve condition
New/Mint
The surprise companion to The National’s April release First Two Pages of Frankenstein, Laugh Track is the band’s most freewheeling, all-hands-on-deck album in years. If Frankenstein represented a rebuilding of trust between group members after 20+ years together, the vibrant, exploratory Laugh Track is both the product of that faith and a new statement of intent. Reveling in the license to radically upend its creative process, The National honed most of this material in live performances on tour, and captured those invigorated versions in impromptu sessions at producer Tucker Martine’s Portland studio. Two nights later in Vancouver, the nearly eight-minute album closer “Smoke Detector” was recorded during soundcheck, completing a body of work bristling with spontaneity and vintage rock energy that makes a perfect complement to the songs found on its more introspective predecessor.
