#plushiemusicwednesday is here but first let me introduce to you my new pal, he is wearing official Liverpool FC kit and he’s named to honour pawsome club manager, Jürgen ❤️
Now back to #brynsmusicselection. Today one of my most beloved bands ❤️
The National are an American rock band from Cincinnati, Ohio, formed in 1999. The band consists of Matt Berninger (vocals), Aaron Dessner (guitar, keyboards), Bryce Dessner (guitar), Scott Devendorf (bass) and Bryan Devendorf (drums). Aaron and Bryce Dessner write and develop the music which Matt Berninger then responds to, building lyrics on the music Aaron and Bryce have written. Matt has said that the melody and the rhythm come first and then words and imagery will start to stick to a melody, stating, “I never sit and fill a journal with lyrics.”
Kitty Empire in The Guardian characterised the band as exploring “literate rock that presents at first as artily sombre, and eventually as one of the most nuanced 21st-century iterations of what used to be known as “college rock”. The National has been compared to Joy Division, Leonard Cohen, Interpol, Wilco, Depeche Mode and Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds. The band’s lyrics have been described as “dark, melancholy and difficult to interpret.”