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We count down The National's best songs to celebrate the release of the band's new album, ‘First Two Pages Of Frankenstein’.

With a little help from Taylor Swift and Phoebe Bridgers, The National deliver a dose of catharsis with their finest album in a decade

How can you tell you’re washed when so much of your greatest music is about being washed? It’s a question that has lingered around the National as long as they’ve been famous. Ever since taking “another un-innocent, elegant fall into the un-magnificent lives of adults” on 2007 breakthrough Boxer, the Brooklyn-founded band of Cincinnati natives has been giving off sad-dad vibes, turning middle-aged neuroses into tastefully morose bangers, ballads, and anthems. You know the drill: Over contemplative, sometimes cathartic big-budget indie rock, lanky baritone Matt Ber...

Amidst creative troubles and an uncertain future, the indie-rock stalwarts find salvation on new album ‘First Two Pages of Frankenstein’

The band's latest album is at its best when the venerable indie band reconnects with their roots.