The National - Laugh Track (CD) Format:CD 3 I Don't Mind

3 I Don't Mind

the Bulgarian Women's choral wail on the otherwise skeletal England

D1 Immortality

with 'The Party'

The Glasgow four-piece channelled throwback art-rock through an early noughties Britpop-revival prism and seemed hell-bent on compacting as many hooks as was feasibly possible in a post-punk record

The National - Laugh Track (CD) Format:CD 3 I Don't MindThe 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. Revelling in the license to radically upend its creative process, The National honed