Title from disc label. Lyrics in booklet inserted in container. The National. Recorded at Long Pond, Hudson Valley, NY.
Contents:
Smoke detector. Deep end (Paul's in pieces) -- Weird goodbyes / (feat. Rosanne Cash) -- Turn off the house -- Dreaming -- Laugh track / (feat. Phoebe Bridgers) -- Space invader -- Hornets -- Coat on a hook -- Tour manager -- Crumble / (feat. Rosanne Cash) -- Smoke detector.
Summary:
The surprise companion to the National's April release, First Two Pages of Frankenstein, 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-plus years together, the vibrant, exploratory album 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.
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