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Sleep Well Beast is the seventh studio album by American indie rock band The National, released on September 8, 2017 through 4AD. The album won a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album at the 60th Grammy Awards. On May 9, and May 10, 2017, the National's Twitter page tweeted out two short audio teasers, one from the title track and the other from the lead single, The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness. Sleep Well Beast is The National's most vibrant and engaging set of songs in years. The National: NPR Music Tiny Desk Well Beast is the seventh album from American indie rock band The National, released on September 8, 2017. In an interview with Rolling Stone, lead singer Matt Berninger said about the album: about marriage, and its about marriages falling apart. Im happily married, and but its hard, marriage is hard and my wife and I are writing the lyrics together about our own struggles and its difficult to write, but its saving my marriage. Not saving my marriage, my marriage is healthy, but its good for everything. The record won a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album at the 2018 Grammys held on Jan. Sleep Well Beast Q&A. Sleep Well Beast is their seventh album, and their first attempt at inviting some of that disruptive energy into the studio. Making records with this band has sometimes sounded about as fun as a forced-bonding office retreat, but this time they built a studio in a pastoral area of upstate New York that muted intraband creative friction. As a result, Sleep Well Beast quakes and shivers with all kinds of un-National sounds-barbed, intentionally sloppy guitar attacks, drum loops, bits of digital crunch and splatter, and a rawer, more abandoned performance from Berninger. On its seventh album, Sleep Well Beast, its new songs have more rhythmic ferment and melodic crosscurrents they translate emotional complexity into musical counterpoint. Until now, the Nationals trajectory was fairly linear. From its self-titled 2001 debut album onward, the National was a band growing consistently more polished, resourceful and secure. Sleep Well Beast gives the bands sound a jolt. The National appeared during the early-2000s New York City rock resurgence, alongside post-punk revisionists like the Strokes and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. It, too, harked back to the guitar-drive. Comparatively, Sleep Well Beast draws attention to itself through the occasional squall of noise The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness and rushed tempo Turtleneck, but also through an expanded sonic palette. Electronics are used for texture and shade, vocal harmonies glide through the mix, pianos anchor a couple of tunes - all subtle gradients within the National's recognizable formula, but they're enough to give Sleep Well Beast a distinct character. Sleep Well Beast is the seventh studio album by The National. The album was released on September 8, 2017, on 4AD. The National's seventh album is 'Sleep Well Beast'. The Nationals hauntingly side-eyed 2007 ode to nationalism, Fake Empire, has gotten big responses at their recent shows, unsurprisingly. Yet the Ohio-bred indie-rock achievers arent a political band per se. A broader soundscape also sets Sleep Well Beast apart from earlier sets. Songs often center on piano electronics by veteran German sound scientists Mouse on Mars swarm and Bryce Dessners string arrangements have grown bolder, full of measured dissonance see Nobody Else Will Be There . Virtually every song on Sleep Well Beast concerns itself with the bleak minutiae of middle age: feelings of regret, relationships becoming careworn and especially unignorable cracks appearing in a marriage. The National: Even in the hard times, we always loved each other. Read more. Its not even a divorce album in the vein of Dylans Blood on the Tracks or Björks Vulnicura. Nothing as dramatic as that. It deals not in fury and vengeance, but passing moments of eye-rolling. The National Sleep Well Beast 4ADBeggars Banquet. Over the past 16 years this veteran indie quintet has quietly become one of the biggest bands in the country, and with their seventh album theyve achieved the rare feat of releasing one of their best - if not the best - collection to date. The seasoning that comes with experience has paid off in spades here, as the group swings deftly between extremes, from slow and stately the keyboard-driven songs like Nobody Else Will Be There and the title track to more aggressive material The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness, Id Still De