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Release date 16-05-2019

2019 EU reissue on 180g 2LP-I Am Easy To Find is The National’s eighth studio album and the follow-up to 2017’s GRAMMY®-award winning release Sleep Well Beast.

A companion short film with the same name will also be released with music by The National and inspired by the album. The film was directed by Academy Award-nominated director Mike Mills (20th Century Women, Beginners), and starring Academy Award Winner Alicia Vikander. Mills, along with the band, is credited as co-producer of the album, which was recorded at Long Pond, Hudson Valley, NY with vocal contributions from Sharon Van Etten, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Lisa Hannigan, Mina Tindle and more. On September 3, 2017, director Mike Mills emailed Matt Berninger to introduce himself and in very short order, the most ambitious project of the National’s nearly 20-year career was born and plans for a hard-earned vacation died.

The Los Angeles-based filmmaker was coming off his third feature, 20th Century Women, and was interested in working with the band on...something. A video maybe. Berninger, already a fan of Mills’ films, not only agreed to collaborate, he essentially handed over the keys to the band’s creative process.

The result is I Am Easy to Find, a 24-minute film by Mills starring Alicia Vikander, and I Am Easy to Find, a 68-minute album by the National. The former is not the video for the latter; the latter is not the soundtrack to the former. The two projects are, as Mills calls them, “Playfully hostile siblings that love to steal from each other”—they share music and words and DNA and impulses and a vision about what it means to be human in 2019, but don’t necessarily need one another. The movie was composed like a piece of music; the music was assembled like a film, by a film director. The frontman and natural focal point was deliberately and dramatically side staged in favor of a variety of female voices, nearly all of whom have long been in the group’s orbit. It is unlike anything either artist has ever attempted and also totally in line with how they’ve created for much of their careers.

Tracks:
LP1:
A1 You Had Your Soul With You - Vocals [Featured Vocalist] – Gail Ann Dorsey
A2 Quiet Light
A3 Roman Holiday -Vocals [Featured Vocalist] – Gail Ann Dorsey
A4 Oblivions - Vocals [Featured Vocalist] – Mina Tindle

B1 The Pull Of You- Vocals [Featured Vocalists] – Lisa Hannigan, Sharon Van Etten
B2 Hey Rosey - Vocals [Featured Vocalist] – Gail Ann Dorsey
B3 I Am Easy To Find - Vocals [Featured Vocalist] – Kate Stables
B4 Her Father In The Pool - Vocals [Featured Vocalist] – Brooklyn Youth Chorus

LP2:
C1 Where Is Her Head
C2 Not In Kansas - Vocals [Featured Vocalists] – Gail Ann Dorsey, Kate Stables, Lisa Hannigan
C3 So Far So Fast - Vocals [Featured Vocalist] – Lisa Hannigan
C4 Dust Swirls In Strange Light - Vocals [Featured Vocalist] – Brooklyn Youth Chorus

D1 Hairpin Turns - Vocals [Featured Vocalist] – Gail Ann Dorsey, Lisa Hannigan
D2 Rylan - Vocals [Featured Vocalist] – Kate Stables
D3 Underwater - Vocals [Featured Vocalist] – Brooklyn Youth Chorus
D4 Light Years