The Nationwide have teased two songs from their forthcoming new album and hinted at collaborations with Taylor Swift, Phoebe Bridgers and Sufjan Stevens.
The band posted a brief clip on Twitter that includes 25 seconds of music with frontman Matt Berninger going through a piano. On the finish of the clip he turns round holding up a e book of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
Earlier this week, The Nationwide despatched teasers to members of their Cherry Tree fan group, hinting at one thing being introduced in the present day (January 13).
One Reddit consumer posted a photograph of a cutout face, with a “Whats up, my identify is Paul” sticker on its head. On the again is in the present day’s date, plus the phrases “Tranquilize the Thoughts”.
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— The Nationwide (@TheNational) January 13, 2023
One other consumer later shared that they’d acquired the identical cutout face, however theirs had the phrases “Evil Forebodings” written on the again.
Immediately, the band shared a hyperlink on their Twitter web page with the identify of their web site and the letters “lp9”.
The clicking by means of asks for a password which is certainly Evil Forebodings and takes the consumer to a passage from the e book of Frankenstein however as a substitute of a letter to Mrs. Saville, it’s addressed to Mrs. Bridgers, whereas the identify Margaret has been changed with Taylor, and “our good Uncle Thomas” has given solution to “our good Uncle Sufjan.”
These are seemingly references to Phoebe Bridgers, Taylor Swift, and Sufjan Stevens. Particulars are but to be confirmed by the band.
It additionally options snippets of two songs, the primary of which is a contemplative piano quantity that finds Berninger singing, “Don’t make this any more durable,” and the second contains a driving guitar because the frontman sings: “I wasn’t beginning but/ I didn’t even suppose you have been listening/ I wasn’t prepared in any respect to say/ Something about something attention-grabbing.”
Final 12 months noticed The Nationwide return with the one ‘Bizarre Goodbyes’, a collaboration with Bon Iver. Talking concerning the track, Berninger defined on the time: “It’s about letting go of the previous and shifting on, then later being overwhelmed by second ideas.”
As for the method of making the monitor, the band’s Aaron Dessner added: “‘Bizarre Goodbyes’ was one of many first new songs we made. I used to be misusing drum machines, as ordinary, and stumbled onto this beat that acquired caught in my head – it felt like one thing solely Bryan might naturally play. We constructed the track across the beat.”
In September, the band shared a remix of Neu!‘s 1972 monitor ‘Im Glück’. Their new interpretation of the track featured as a part of Neu!’s fiftieth anniversary boxset, which was launched on September 23 through British-German label Grönland Data.
Throughout a current interview with NME, Bryce Dessner talked about what followers can count on from The Nationwide’s new materials. “It’s beginning to develop into one thing we’re actually enthusiastic about,” he stated. “It’s arduous to say what form it is going to take, however there’s a ton there.”
The Nationwide launched their eighth and most up-to-date studio album, ‘I Am Simple To Discover’, again in 2019.
