Stream: The National, ‘The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness’

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The National (Photo by Graham MacIndoe)
The National (Photo by Graham MacIndoe)

Indie-rock quintet the National have announced that their seventh album, “Sleep Well Beast,” will be out Sept. 8, via 4AD. The follow-up to 2013’s “Trouble Will Find Me,” the album was made in four locations (chief producer Aaron Dessner’s studio in the Hudson Valley, as well as in Berlin, Paris and Los Angeles) and mixed by Peter Katis. Along with the announcement the band unveiled the song “The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness,” a typically noir-ish number that atypically is is heavy on the electronics and has a good ol’ guitar solo. The song was introduced via a dynamically digitized video made by Casey Reas.

||| Stream: “The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness”

||| Live: The National, along with Local Natives, play the Hollywood Bowl on Oct. 11. Ticket info.